Historias de Hard-boiled

In 1950s Los Angeles, prolific "people-finder", RICK YOUNGE must find an embezzling mob accountant, a missing dead husband (who might not be so dead after all), a mystery by-mail 'secret admirerer', and his own kidnapped dog, all while trying to keep the lights on for another month and stay sober long enough to ponder what life's all about in this debut adventure for L.A.'s most 'by-the-seat-of-his-wrinkled-pants' private detective.

Allow me to introduce myself: the name's Dylan Neville. I'm a decent writer, a good cook, and (if I do say so myself) the sharpest shot in the City. Nice to meet you all. Well, I found out the hard way that there's only so many bridges you can burn before you've got no more places to run. So I had to turn to my brother, currently sitting on his newly minted detective agency and looking for assistants. Ryan spent most of our childhood as an amateur sleuth. But I'd say there are significant differences between being a kid detective and doing the business as an adult. For instance; your name gets stamped above the door for the mighty convenience of anyone who wants you dead. Can't say this is how I imagined spending my twenties. But hey, I've got nowhere else to go. Might as well make the best out of it.

In 1915 an unsuspecting passenger ship sails through treacherous waters toward a doom that was ordered from the highest authorities. For Jacob Blankfield, a thirteen-year-old boy dependent on leg braces and crutches, coming of age will come early, aboard a ship on its final voyage across the Atlantic, amidst explosions and torpedoes, battling forces unleashed by Great Powers in a Great War. After witnessing a murder, Jacob is thrust into the center of a conspiracy that threatens his own life and that of two thousand passengers. Forming alliances with friends and enemies, he digs to uncover the expansive details of a plot and the coconspirators before it is too late, standing in the way of secret plans and nefarious men, ultimately pushed to overcome his fear and handicaps to take matters into his own hands. As the ship approaches its destiny, Jacob closes in on a final duel of arms against an experienced and sinister opponent, learning that even his friends can be enemies. An introduction to arms, action and courage that promise to change his life forever and permanently forge his character, for better or for worse.

Everyone in the neighbourhood knew her. Everyone saw her everyday going about her business. Everyone loved her. But nobody knows where she went. Nobody knows what she's doing. And nobody knows if she's safe... except somebody does, dont they?

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

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 Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to discover the truth about Melanie and her ex-boyfriend. With her career and life on the line, Sam's search takes her from the blue-collar Baltimore suburbs to the mansions of Gibson Island. Along the way, she learns that false identities can hide dark secrets, and those secrets can destroy lives. This is the first book in the Sam McRae Mystery Series. I'm putting this up online, one chapter per week. But if you just can't wait to read the whole thing, you can buy it at any of the retailers listed here for just 99 cents: http://www.debbimack.com/project/identity-crisis/

A man walks into a bar, his hands smelling of bleach. All he wants is a drink and an alibi, but what he gets is an encounter with a loud, old man. As they talk he realizes they share a very personal and very dangerous link.

High tech meets hard boiled in "Mash-Up", a deep fake detective noir that pours Hollywood hijinks, international espionage and algorithmic art in the blender and spins up a stiff shot of murder. Sam Cache, a government keyboard jockey turned online gumshoe scrapes by cracking penny ante ransomware beefs until her former NSA handler draws her into the crime of the century... Who hacked Mary Poppins? On the path of a rogue AI, she tangles with tinsel town wanna-be's, transhuman cultists, and a blood thirty business mogul in a race to uncover the truth. Mash-Up is "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by way of "The Big Sleep", a darkly humorous story that launches a new breed of private eye with a finger on the pulse of our not to distant future.

Sheriff Shreveport Allen is on the trail of two cold-blooded killers racking up a body count. Will he catch them before they kill again?

Ranking High #goodgirlsarebadgirls, #psychologicalthrillers, #femalevigilante. When her nearest and dearest are gunned down in cold blood, Athena vows justice. Until now she's blocked out the disturbing memories of her past, but it's time to face the truth, however painful it could be. The transition from a rich gal to a reckless vigilante is swift but thwart with her recurring depression and alcoholic tendencies. While she walks a thin line between right and wrong to get justice at any price the stress mounts and another vice appears - sex - anywhere, anytime. Her search for the murderer twists and turns and then finally a clue... there is a Careless Whisperer. An innocent conversation has been overheard. Suddenly her life is in free-fall, she has to face the possibility that SHE may be The Careless Whisperer. The murders, her tortured soul and trashy new life may be all HER fault!

Completed entirely by NK The story of how a young high school boy manages to struggle between high school life, and assassin life. Will the two start to mix? Or can Darren keep his balances in check? You'll find out through a long, dangerous ride filled with, swords, guns and explosions. It's like a Michael Bay movie in a book.

After being dumped by her boyfriend at a Christmas dance in Chicago, a girl takes an Uber ride home that turns into a night of terror and a horror for the holidays

'With a dress that red I should have seen the warning signs' What if Missy had never walked into his office and his life? And just what is that necklace she's after? Cynical Private Investigator Ham Spayde finds himself engulfed in a web of lies, psychos and Cisco's most wanted, as he does everything he can to stay one step ahead. Hard Talking, Hard drinking Spayde is the Anthropomorphic answer to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. And one more thing no one touches the fedora.

Thriller| Superhero| Action In a city crawling with secrets, STINK rises from alley-born mystery to psychic warrior. Gifted with insect communion and microbial control, he battles gang threats and biotech horrors unleashed by Triton Industries. Guided by mystics like Golden Owl, STINK uncovers his origin and the city's buried truths. Each episode blends Hip Hop grit, Afrofuturist horror, and numerology into a mythic saga of resistance. STINK isn't just fighting corruption-he's becoming the immune system of a dying world.

One of Hollywood's elites has been murdered, the accused her estranged husband. The situation doesn't look good for the husband, whose appetites for booze, gambling, and extramarital sex are as outsized as his ego. To make matters worse, he is on the hook to his bookie for a quarter million bucks, and with next to no alibi, multi-million reasons to kill his wealthy wife.

In the late 1950s, Korean war vet Lonnie Bonner is on his way to commit suicide in the mountains around Big Sur when he almost runs over a girl walking the dark highway alone. He agrees to give her a ride and unwittingly find himself driving straight into a confrontation with a violent motorcycle gang...and maybe a reason to keep on living. Originally included in the Hoods, Hot Rods, and Hellcats anthology