A lurid pulp thriller with a supernatural edge, set in the South Pacific and New York City. Harry Jakes, an ex private eye from Manhattan, is running a cheap but charming bar on a remote Pacific island and thinks he's left his gumshoe days behind—until a shady figure walks into his dive in the middle of a typhoon and sets in motion a fantastical chain of events that will embroil him and his two best friends in a web of uncanny terror and suspense. At the heart of it is a mysterious young Polynesian woman who may or may not be a ghost and a priceless black pearl that any number of people are willing to kill for. A spooky, sexy novella from the author of "Bloodbath".Lloyd Fonvielle is a screenwriter (The Mummy, 1999) and director (Gotham, 1988) and author of a number of works of fiction—the pulp novel Bloodbath, the novellas Missouri Green and Circus, the short story collection Christmas In the West, all available on Amazon for the Kindle, and Fourteen Western Stories, available for the Kindle and in a paperback edition. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada and plays some poker there from time to time. He publishes an online journal of visual culture at mardecortesbaja.com.
Solve a murder, save her mother, and stop the apocalypse? No problem. She has a foul-mouthed troll on her side. For Austin homicide detective Leira Berens, happy is running down bad guys and solving crimes. And she’s damn good at it. Which is why when the Light Elf prince is murdered, the king breaks a centuries old treaty and crosses between worlds to seek her help. Wait a min...
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