Hard-boiled Stories

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? ~~~ ...

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...

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...

Homicide desk reporter Bobby Knight knows there's a story, but what that story is he can't figure out. When you got five people dead in the same area, all looking like t...

It's time for this to be over. It's time to pay. It's time to stop running. As the car window slowly rolls down, he whispers one word ...

**short stories** The life of a working private detective doesn't leave a whole lot of downtime, and nobody knows this better than Holden Burke. Collected here are a ser...

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...

The Bible says to forgive but the Bible also says an eye for an eye and what do you do when someone takes something more important than an eye?

'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? Cyn...

This is a story I wrote for my company's annual Writing contest. I was somewhat limited by the 4,500 word limit, so it ends with a bit of an anticlimax. I wrote it more...

The first time I saw Adam Davis, he was at the casino. The second time he was dead. I have all the luck at making friends. It's a gift. I don't do murder cases. There's...

In the smog-filled streets of a dystopian Paris years in the future, a rigid hard boiled detective must hunt down the serial killer tormenting government ministers. The...

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...

"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...

"I've known a lot of people with worse lives than you. It's part of the business I'm in -- I get to see all kinds of human privilege, human weakness, human strangen...

Detective Jacob Quinn, a seasoned and brooding investigator, is known for solving cases that seem unsolvable. He has a unique ability to see patterns and connect dots th...

Khail Crestwell is a medium living in NYC. He has had his fill with the supernatural after a bad run in with a spirit unlike anything he has ever face before but when hi...

How far would you go to help a friend in trouble? Ben Perkins might go so far as to risk his job, but with a friend like David Telano, in the kind of trouble he's in, h...