The Lonely Detective Ed McCoppin, in this second volume, returns in four new humorous, culturally outrageous who-done-it adventures populated with a host of colorful characters: working with two detectives obsessed with murders' meanings and numbers, another detective who is morbidly sensitive to people's sufferings, an ugly Captain most interested in how she appears doing her work, and finally, drinking and talking in a bar, he solves two murders committed years apart.
Four absolutely funny, culturally outrageous who-done-it stories whose unique detective, a lonely disrespected anti-hero, sees sacred beliefs turned upside down as he solves the mysterious deaths of a rich Tasty Cake deliveryman, a woman supporting the correct causes, a bum exposing the correct causes, and a disillusioned volunteer involved in the correct causes.
Eight unique who done it murder mysteries running the gambit from mourners drinking to the departed, women searching for men, African charity celebrates, religious retreatants searching for God, writers seeking sexual tension, women doing what they should, and Internet bizarre dates all challenging the reader to visit people he may find amusing, disturbing and puzzling.
A collection of eleven outrageously nasty, politically incorrect, uniquely humorous mysteries. This new collection runs the gambit from murder among material lawyers, a mailman who burglars, a cop parody, little league greedy lawyers, to reality TV exposed. These mysteries will puzzle and amuse the reader.
This Volume VI, a collection of "who done it" mysteries is filled with nasty characters doing very nasty things in funny and outrageous ways, as exemplified in Murder at BB's Big Bash (A Lonely Detective Mystery) where one finds idealistic teachers devolving into cynical desperate people as liquor flows and the chip bowl empties, and one guest leaves feet first.
Are you bored with characters who are too good or too evil to believe, tired of plots about threats to the world by sinister evil gangs, tired of the obligatory sex scenes? Welcome to 13 everyday nasty type people talking hypocritically and doing despicable things leading to murder. Can you solve these 'who done it' murders, given sufficient clues?
In this eighth volume of the Lonely Detective Mysteries you'll read about: the Lonely Detective running amok in beauty salons, the Finder deep into a despicable man's three lives as well as having bizarre adventures with Manhattan alligators and rhinos, and the Should man, knee deep in talking heads.
"Maggie Warshauer remembers that summer of secrets... She knows the secrets of the rural North Carolina marina where she lives and works with her father, Drew, and she holds deep secrets about her family, a far-too-intimate view of her parents' passionate and failed marriage, her father's alcoholism. An outsider at school, insecure in her own sexual identity, Maggie "fictionalizes" a secret lover and categorizes the life around her, a project that began when she stole a copy of Linnaeus's journals. When her beautiful cousin, Charisse, disappears on prom night and is found dead in a houseboat at the marina, Maggie's cobbled-together life comes apart. As Maggie tries to come to terms with her shattered family, and with her own actions on the night of Charisse's death, the search continues for the killer. A local outcast is flushed from his hiding place, but he returns in the December dark to stalk an all-but-deserted marina looking for Maggie. All fantasies are swept aside as she must rely on her own grit and intelligence to survive. What was done in darkness will come to light, but who will pay the price for Charisse's death?"--
Former police detective Lorimer Shenher's “inside account of the Pickton serial murders is both a horrifying and compelling read. "—Peter Vronsky, author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters In this searing personal account, ex-police detective Lori Shenher (who transitioned to in 2015, and is now known as Lorimer) describes his role in Vancouver's infamous Missing Women Investigation and unflinchingly reveals his years-long struggle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of working on the case. From his first assignment, in 1998, to investigate an increase in the number of missing women to the harrowing 2002 interrogation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, Shenher tells a story of massive police failure—failure of the police to use the information about Pickton available to them, failure to understand the dark world of drug addiction and sex work, and failure to save more women from their killer. That Lonely Section of Hell passionately pursues the deeper truths behind the causes of this tragedy and the myriad ways the system failed to protect vulnerable people.
Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him. Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious "accidents"--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.
