Hardboiled Stories

LAST TRICK Paranormal | Mystery | Urban Noir Chicago, late night. Latrell steps into a reckless haze-Cabrini Green, liquor flowing, dice tumbling, the kind of party where decisions disappear. Then, the morning hits. A hood chick from the chaos claims she's carrying his child. But something about her story don't sit right. Latrell digs in, and what unravels ain't just a pregnancy-it's a deep-web of deception, a criminal past riddled with missing pieces, and a serial killer lurking in the margins. One truth leads to another trick. One trick leads to another body. If he sees the full picture before his own face lands on a crime scene, it'll be a miracle.

While battling drug addiction and post-traumatic demons, can a female veteran overcome the forces trying to frame her for murder? When Marine veteran and aspiring private eye Erica Jensen gets a frantic call for help from a client-the female half of a social media influencer couple-she springs into action. Unfortunately, she arrives at their house only to find their bodies, butchered, in the basement. Despite her cooperation with police, the homicide detectives on the case consider Erica a possible "person of interest." As Erica struggles to exonerate herself, she draws unwanted attention from a mysterious stranger. Meanwhile, witnesses who could clear her wind up dead. Can Erica fight forces powerful enough to frame her for murder without getting herself or more civilians killed?

Erica Jensen, a retired Marine with PTSD, struggles with making a living as an unlicensed private eye and overcoming her opioid addiction. When she's hired by a rich business man to find his missing daughter and recover embezzled money, things go south fast when she stumbles across a dead body. As Erica tries to discover why the victim was killed and where the girl disappeared, she ends up being targeted by the Russian mob. However, it takes all of Erica's wits to find out the astonishing truth behind it all.

Hidari moves to Lumiose city recently to apply for an apprenticeship at the Looker Bureau to make his dream of being a Hard-boiled Detective come true with also starting his Pokémon Journey in Lumiose he will discover the Mystery of this city and the legendary Pokémon Zygarde

Thriller| Comic| Action In the guts of a decaying city, a baby is found in an alley-surrounded by insects, embraced by vermin, and utterly unafraid. Raised in shadows by a reclusive elder, Malachi learns the language of the crawl. When violence shatters his fragile world, he unleashes the creatures that dwell beneath the streets. Born of filth, forged in fury, he becomes STINK-urban myth, reluctant savior, and the city's final reckoning. Not all heroes wear capes-some come wrapped in decay.

'Rev' Parata is a PI stuck in the orbit of the Big Easy in the 1980's. Life is rough, and he's barely fending off racists and criminals when a member of the British aristocracy offers him a case that is too good to be true. Chasing down his mark, Rev finds himself face-to-face with powers beyond understanding and turns to his people's medicine to guide him through.

It is broken. Everything is broken; The only way is up. Through broken heart. And senseless violence. Comes truth; Comes all the things that you ever needed...

In a 1930s anytown, USA called Arrant City, a hardboiled detective with a heart of gold - Lenny Zollins - AKA Zollie or LZ - fights crime of the ... unusual variety.

A call follows his breakup. Mara Reddington has suffered a kidnapping. The Thin Man, her stalker, had threatened to steal her baby from her. Threatened to make her thin. Now she was alone. A call follows his breakup and he clings to it. With thoughts of another fighting in his mind, he goes to her. He goes to hear the wild tale of anguish that the police rejected. To investigate the stolen baby that may already be dead. To feel something other than the pain of lost love. He goes to find the Thin Man.

"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 trying to get him out of the way until things cool down at MI6. Although it is meant to be down time, in James Bond's world trouble is never far behind. Soon after his arrival, James is being pursued by members of the European underworld and is caught in the deadly clutches one of the most vicious killers he has ever faced. James Bond discovers that sometimes the greatest criminals can hide in plain sight and uncovering the truth could have consequences he could never have imagined. A man of honour gets his job done, but at what cost?

*NEW CHAPTERS EVERY MONDAY* Detective Earl Cullimore navigates an architectural mystery to answer the call of a potential client... Note: This is a first draft that I'm writing on the fly each week. (Started August 3rd, 2021)

After being dumped by her boyfriend at a Christmas dance in Chicago, a girl takes an Uber ride home that turns into a night of terror and a horror for the holidays

[HIGHEST RANKING : #18] "Sometimes the past makes the present BETTER" Everyone is aware of their past and that everyone includes Harrison Blake who is a retired MI-5 agent. What will happen if someone is unaware of his past? What will happen if someone gets to know his past and tends to relive it again because of one single reason- his family? These are the highlighted yet briefed points of the agents life. He suffered a serious family loss because of some reason he doesn't know yet. The journey finding the truth gives invitation to several negative points such as heartbreak, frustration and depression. Harrison knows it all still has the guts to face it but will he succeed? - THAT REMAINS A MYSTERY

Little snips of Olma Tiig's life. Basically an attempt to get feedback and get me moving by using my daily writing.

He's tough and smart. She's tough, smart, and 12. Houston, 1961. Texas' slickest politician has lost his presidential bid to a good-looking naval hero from Massachusetts but gained the Senate gavel. And if President Kennedy wants to put a man on the moon, LBJ wants to put Houston at the center of the moon mission. Sleepy backwater Houston finds itself short on air conditioning just when things are heating up. In a seedy downtown office, a well-dressed out-of-towner hires P.I. Harry Lark to tail two D.C. visitors looking to build NASA a space center, but his client turns up dead in Harry's office. Meanwhile, Harry's twelve-year-old daughter Dizzy is running a lost-and-found out of a suburban garage when she's hired to find a missing father who's supposed to be dead and buried. Find out why Jani Brooks of Romance Reviews Today calls Bayou City Burning "a terrific mystery loaded with humor, lots of excitement, and fascinating, well written characters" and rates it "a Perfect 10 book."

This was an exercise to write something in the 'violent beauty' mold of Cormac McCarthy and Faulkner and Joyce. Did I succeed? I'm not sure myself but these five hundred words (I believe) are strong and evocative and I may return and build upon this at a later date.

Detective Hammett, Private Investigator. I've been in the business for eight years and I've seen a lot happen in my time. But when my client turns up dead, I take the investigation personally. When it turned out that this investigation is anything but a simple murder, I never expected to find what I did...

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 the same cause within five days, then there's a story. When the area is a grave yard, that makes it sound like it might be a good story. But when the apparent cause of death is -- nothing -- it makes the story hard to tell.