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The exploits and adventures of college student, computer geek, and occult detective Elaine Hadaly Mercer. She begins her career as an undergrad at Arizona State University majoring in Computer Science and Engineering; but comes from a long blood line of dabblers in the arcane arts with a strong bent for the scientific—hitherto that strange alchemy of genius courses through her . . .
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A past that can damn him and no future, Trey has to act. What would you do? On the run and homeless. You would grab at every opportunity like it was your last. This is the last chance for Trey. Dead Drop is a fiction blog, a modern Noir set in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California. Listinged every . . .
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Welcome to the world of master fabulist Edward Morris, where History has been pulled down a Hieronymus Bosch rabbit-hole and everything makes far too much sense. In Morris’s alternate history tour de force, on an East Coast two centuries after Armageddon, a rogue soldier throws himself back in Time to wreak havoc upon History and feed on the blood in . . .
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Thomas Bleakly, Private Investigator is batflip insane. Sometimes it works for him, sometimes . . . not so much. One day a beautiful woman hires him to find her father. The catch? She’s a robot. Told from three perspectives, none of them necessarily trustworthy. Watch out for for nonsensical subplots, insane characters, and conspiracies that span whole realities. . . .
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A soldier returns home to settle old scores and gets caught up in the schemes of some grifters out to rip off the Russian mob. . . .
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It’s 2042 in the California Free State metroplex of Bay City. Kat and Mouse are a pair of ronin—guns for hire—trying to eke out a living. They have the skill. They have the will. And they have the bad habit of getting in over their heads. Which usually means run-ins with rival ronin, punkergangs, the mob, the . . .
This was a hyper-novel before there was a web. The development of blog software and tag clouds creates the perfect medium for this culture, thirty years later. . . .
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Juniper Song, a Korean-American girl in L.A., stumbles onto murder and scandal when one of her best friends asks her to do some snooping on a girl he suspects of sleeping with his wealthy father. It is a modern hard-boiled work with a huge stylistic debt to Raymond Chandler. . . .
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When the purple-haired dame showed up at the agency, Flank Ploughman, private investigator, did his best to send her away. Like it said on the door, he didn’t take that kind of case. But he couldn’t resist cash when it was right in front of him like that, and soon he was caught up in the underground of Tokyo’s Seru . . .
I enjoyed Kat and Mouse. Fast. Funny. Lots of blood between paragraphs. Read it while liveblogging at The Dispatch. Kept me entertained.
Damn.
Abner Senires has the skills. The chops, as they say in the biz. Writing reads snappy. Characters a little [more . . .]
I’ve always had a thing for detective stories. Sherlock Holmes, The Maltese Falcon, Blade Runner, Law and Order, Tracer Bullet (yes, I just mentioned Calvin and Hobbes), these are some of the greats. There’s something about a detective story that I like. Maybe it’s their use of intellect to solve a problem. Maybe it’s the fact that they use their [more . . .]