A Long, Hard Look (Chapter 1)
It was one of those days when breakfast wanted to be cheap whiskey straight from the bottle. They came less often lately, but they came. Five years isn’t long enough. Maybe there is no long enough....
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It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1 I took a step back. A half a step. The typing rooms are small. “Gilbert Breville?” That threw her. The waterworks shut off. “How do you know that? We...
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It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1 “Are you going somewhere?” I didn’t understand why she’d stood. “To talk to Sam. She’s behind this and I want to know why.” Millie stood. “You don’t...
View ArticleA Long, Hard Look (Chapter 30)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1 She was a dozen yards from the car before I stopped gasping like a fish and got out. I waited until I’d caught up so I didn’t have to yell. That, and...
View ArticleA Long, Hard Look (Chapter 50)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1 They didn’t call me a cab, but they didn’t shove me down on the pavement either. I did the former for myself and skipped the latter. I could have...
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A Long, Hard Look is All Yours
It’s been almost 6 weeks since that last post; long overdue. A Long, Hard Look is ready, as you can see from the sidebar on the left. Get it in paperback from me or Amazon or get the Kindle version or...
View ArticleA Long, Hard Look (Chapter 40)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1 We piled into Millie’s car and drove to Sam’s apartment, just a few blocks from the Mills Building. I felt like a school of fish, swarming from the...
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That Buxom Blonde Phil Was Looking For
An excerpt from A Long, Hard Look. Watch for the second Phil Brennan mystery, A Still, Small Voice, this summer. My front door does not have an annoying habit of failing to stay latched. It latches...
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So, Who Knifed You?
“Come over here and lie down on the bench.” She pulled my arm and the rest of me back to the little corner spot where some folks drank their coffee instead of buying it and going home to make their...
View ArticleKnee-deep in these folks and their shenanigans
“Could she have put Gil up to hiring me?” “Why would she do that?” I hadn’t thought about it. I was still slapping pieces into the puzzle to see what fit where. Would have been nice if I could see the...
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No point buying something expensive when you can’t be sure any of it is going...
“You knew.” I’d given up saving the situation. Yes, I knew, and I hadn’t told her. Yes, this Gertrude and Sam thing was my idea, and we’d blown it sky high. Yes, Darcy, I love you, and you hate me, and...
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Maybe you can help me with a little something
She scrunched her lips and her eyebrows. I liked the lips better, but the scrunched eyebrows worked, too. “Well, now. I’m not here about what Gil wanted. You’ve clearly already taken care of that,...
View ArticleA Long, Hard Look (Chapter 1)
It was one of those days when breakfast wanted to be cheap whiskey straight from the bottle. They came less often lately, but they came. Five years isn’t long enough. Maybe there is no long enough....
View ArticleA Long, Hard Look (Chapter 10)
It’ll make more sense if you start with Chapter 1 I took a step back. A half a step. The typing rooms are small. “Gilbert Breville?” That threw her. The waterworks shut off. “How do you know that? We...
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Big Launch for ‘A Still, Small Voice’
Phil Brennan mystery #2, A Still, Small Voice, will be published before year end. After the 1st of the year I’m going to go on a blog tour, writing short custom pieces for a handful of bloggers who’d...
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