Hard-boiled Stories

While battling drug addiction and post-traumatic demons, can a female veteran overcome the forces trying to frame her for murder? When Marine veteran and aspiring privat...

Erica Jensen, a retired Marine with PTSD, struggles with making a living as an unlicensed private eye and overcoming her opioid addiction. When she's hired by a rich bus...

A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae's client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find M...

**first runner-up at the 5th Ohana Awards (Mystery/Thriller)** "I've given a lot up, sure. We all give things up to different degrees." "How different?&qu...

In this hard boiled mystery solving double feature, the bad guys team up with two of the greatest detectives In the world: mystery inc and Tom & Jerry. Ever since myster...

"Holiday, ha!" spat James Bond "What was I thinking?" When James Bond is sent to Vienna to attend a meeting at the UN, he realizes that M is merely t...

After a hit-and-run occurs outside of his favorite bar, Retired Detective turned Private Eye Josh Slim is asked by the owner to find out the details of the employee's de...

Once a cop, now a private eye. Once human, now a cyborg. Dalton Steel had scraped a living investigating the things that were beneath the cops he used to work with. Exce...

ONC Ambassador's Pick & Shortlister! Rumors. Infidelity. Lies. Secrets. MURDER. And all before lunch time. Who knew being a socialite in 1951 could be so thrilling? ~~~ ...

Now complete! ~~~ Ella Lewis is dead. Someone must pay. “I loved Ella. Now she’s a corpse, cooling off in the morgue with a noose-shaped bruise around her neck. The cops...

Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive cop framed for murder, and now hunted by cops and the mob. Max is a man with his bac...

I found a hard boiled egg on the side of the road and thought about how it got there

A detective must solve a mystery of the disappearance of several people, all whom owned self driving cars. I wrote this story for my Master's. Please enjoy.

Daniela Moreno wakes up one morning with her eyes gouged out. No blood, just two empty sockets left behind. I may not have any memories of the incident, but I will find...

Moon Potato and Yancey face a most unexpected situation as The Server succumbs to a breakout of zombies.

Chase Dagger is a private detective with no past, a sometime fiancée, a scarlet macaw with a brain and an attitude, and a beautiful assistant named Sara. Sara witnesses...

When necromancer Simon Van Hadley receives a cryptic telegram summoning him to the decaying town of Kadan, Kentucky, he finds a house steeped in sorrow and rage. Inside...

Donald Rabe was hired on by his best friend Bobby-Boy to guard him as he begins his new ministry at a church located in the rough part of town. Knowing Bobby-Boy from hi...

'Rev' Parata is a PI stuck in the orbit of the Big Easy in the 1980's. Life is rough, and he's barely fending off racists and criminals when a member of the British aris...