Blood on the Tracks

Edited by Aaron Bearden

Every song has a story. Some end in murder.

Behind the music are the people who make it happen—and the secrets they’d kill to keep.

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS brings together original crime fiction set in the seductive, ruthless world of music, where ambition becomes obsession, loyalty has a price, and the distance between the spotlight and the shadows can be measured in a single bad decision.

Musicians and managers. Songwriters and producers. Roadies, record executives, club owners, fans, lovers, hustlers, and has-beens. They inhabit backstage rooms and recording studios, dive bars and arenas, tour buses and lonely highways—places where dreams are made, careers are destroyed, and sometimes people disappear.

These are stories of murder, betrayal, revenge, corruption, desperation, and survival. Stories about what happens when the applause stops, the house lights come up, and someone has to pay for what happened after the last song.

Because in the music business, everybody wants a hit.

Some people are just willing to do more than others to get one.