They
say all the best cases start when a gorgeous but troubled lady walks
into your office. Most of my cases begin when an ugly old guy
asks me to follow his young and beautiful wife. Believe me when
I tell you that the client never enjoys paying that particular bill.
Either the wife was cheating and now the guy blames me, or she wasn’t
cheating and now he doesn’t want to pay me. So where was I? Oh,
that's right; the best cases begin when a gorgeous but troubled lady
walks into your office. This case wasn't going to be like
that. This
case began when a dead man walked into my office. And not one
of those elegant Eurotrash vampires, either. This guy was a
corpse. He looked like a corpse, he smelled like a corpse, and
he talked like I imagined corpses must talk. I wasn't totally surprised. I had heard about revenants, of course. Nearly everyone in my business has. Revenants are the animated dead, risen from the grave to seek justice or revenge. Usually revenge. Hard working private detectives like myself ran into them from time to time. Not as often as homicide cops did, but often enough. And as far as I was concerned, once was too often for me. "Mr. Monday, I need you to find my murderer," the murdered man groaned, moistly.
And so it begins for Zack Monday. When a dead man walks into his office looking to solve the mystery of his own murder, the private detective must confront thugs, corrupt cops, ghosts, undead mobsters, devils, angels and his ex-wife to find the hard truths that no one wants found. But Zack isn't alone. He'll get help from his partner Baxter – a half-goblin bruiser with a secret past, and a slacker street-warlock named Tim whose involvement in the case is a bit of a mystery in and of itself. Buy Monday and the Murdered Man as an e-bookfrom Amazon from BN.com from the App Store Buy Monday and the Murdered Man as a paperback from Amazon |
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