Chop Shop

This is s story about the black market in organ transplants around the world. I always thought that if my name was on a donor list, I would be looking over my shoulder where ever I went.

In this book, New York-based studio musician and in-demand clinician Matt Smith opens his bag of tricks and tells all. Matt demystifies topics such as chord progressions, "cool notes" in solos, harp scales, harmonics, improvisation, alternate tunings, blues, rock, acoustic and much more. His unique and creative approaches to composition, soloing and mastering the fretboard will inspire and motivate you to reach new levels of musicianship and self-confidence in your playing. Matt Smith gives you the tools you need to improve your guitar chops in this fun-to-read and easy-to-use book---a must for all guitarists.

From the "Pasedena Star News" investigative journalist who covered the chilling case comes the grisly true story of the Lamb Funeral Home scandal in southern California. Braidhill details the twisted greed and blind ambition that drove the founder's son, David Sconce, to mutilate corpses and illegally sell their body parts--including the gold in their teeth. Pleading guilty to 21 felony charges, Sconce spent four years in prison and is now nearly bankrupt. Includes 16 pages of never-before-published photos.

Young Dr. Riley McKay's promising future in pathology is threatened when suspicious activities incriminate her supervising pathologist, Dr. Nathan Lassiter. In desperation she turns to Dr. Nick Polchak, the Bug Man, to help her uncover the truth.

"Chop Shop is a wild blend of pulp fiction with dark comedy; its engrossing plot always seems just about to spin out of control." - Foreword Amber Hawthorne and Jolene Morris, roommates and business partners at the Hawthorne Funeral Home, are drowning in debt. Because both young women have trouble keeping their partying habits in line, they start selling body parts on the black market to keep their business alive – and their new buyers seem friendly and trustworthy enough at first. That is until the dead gangster they've recently parted up turns out to have been full of disease. Now Amber and Jolene's buyers want something else to make up for lost profits, leaving the two undertakers to learn sometimes running your own business can cost you an arm and a leg. Literally. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.