The Shadow Busters track down and capture a Virginia-based newspaper reporter in this debut novel in the Shadow Busters Series.
Mark T. Watson takes readers to the edge of underworld pickpocketing when Broderick "Shadow Buster" Throckmorton, P.I. and his team of crack law enforcement professionals and supernatural and unexplained phenomena investigators crack the case of professional magician and pickpocket Justin Palmer, who is embroiled in theft, larceny and mafia infiltration.
Throckmorton, together with Sgt. Harry, Commissioner Tapp, Rodney the Shadow Busting Magician, Katheryn, Officer Joe Sackett, Professor Wade Raymond "Revolver" Watson and several crime- and paranormal phenomena-fighting investigators and mad scientists from a secret society known as the Shadow Busters Foundation battle Palmer and his crack cronies invading the City of Baltimore, Maryland.
Filled with hilarious punchlines, offbeat settings and mysterious shadow busting villains, criminals
and bizarre characters, this novel is a must read for all private-investigator novel fans.
Riveting, yet hard-hitting and hilarious, The Aspiration of Detective Broderick Throckmorton gives mystery novel readers a look into the world of shadow busting law and unexplained phenomena-oriented enforcement.
It's funny, offensive humor and suspense that makes Mark T. Watson one of the best new humorists and comedians contributing his talent to literary writing.
Make the case for great fiction. Read The Aspiration of Detective Broderick Throckmorton at your risk!
ABOUT MARK T. WATSON
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Internet comedian Mark T. Watson has earned the nickname "The Comedy Answer Man" since 2000. The Aspiration of Broderick Throckmorton is his first novel.
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(+18) After a few poor life choices, Patricia 'Trixie' Gray ends up in Vegas working as a stripper. Just when life was already low for her, she witnesses a murder and everything is turned upside down. Kidnapped by a handsome stranger who has his own agenda, she wonders whether her luck has run out in Sin City.
Dimitri Bendorova is next in line, taking his father's place on the mob throne. A heist is the last thing he needs when the chips are on the table. Only he can piece everything together. That is, until he has to keep the most infuriating woman he has ever met, safe and alive.
Romantic mafia comedy with action, satire and humor.
Tropes:
~ Forced proximity.
~ Grumpy/Sunshine
~ Bodyguard.
~ Touch her and die.
Trigger and content warnings:
~ Violence and Death
~ Adult language
~ Mature scenes
~ Satire
Highest rankings:
#1 Adultthemes
#1 Satirical
#1 Mafiaromance
#2 Mafia (out of 147k stories)
#2 Humor (out of 215k stories)
#2 Standalone
#2 Steamyromance
#3 Romantic-suspense
#5 Love (out of 2M stories)
#6 Comedy (out of 187k stories)
#6 Novella
#9 Satire
Awards:
@theambys 2023 ~ 3rd round qualifier
@Romance ~ Romance Reads contest (qualifier)
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