Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick
An hour after he learns his job has been eliminated, Hub Schneider receives an email from girlfriend, Monica, listing twenty two different reasons why she never, ever wants to . . .

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Baby Grand
Childhood pals and terminal losers Mickey Donnelly and Dell Dolan have come up with the ultimate pension plan. A series of poorly planned snatch-and-grabs go off course until . . .

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Merlot
Anthony DiMento is a nice young man known to his friends as Merlot. Why would anyone want to hassle him? Seems he borrowed funds from the wrong lender —unscrupulous, germophobic mobster Declan Osborne.

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Chow for Now
Dickie Mullins, sometime Private Eye, owner of a failing bar and driver of a DeLorean, lives on a houseboat in the St. Paul Marina. His life would be a lot smoother if only . . .

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Finders Keepers
Perpetual screw-ups Austin and Andre Boothe decide stealing the local strip club's nightly deposit from an armored car would be just the thing to augment their income. They're in for a big surprise when . . .

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End of the Line
Businessman Perkin Hoyt is a victim of the Great Recession, and a long trail of bad luck. He can't even get an appointment, much less a loan, from the Second National Bank where he's conducted business for the past thirty years.

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Russian Roulette
No one is surprised that dysfunctional PI Dev Haskell ends up in bed with his latest client. But he hasn’t the foggiest notion she’s just signed him up with the Russian mob. Their ‘special’ relationship quickly finds Dev at odds with local police and an FBI task force investigating human trafficking. In the process of getting answers Dev places himself on both sides of the law. He’s shot, beaten, car bombed, and used as a human shield all in the name of justice, at least as he sees it.

An entertaining tale of intrigue, rank ineptitude and one night stands. Russian Roulette is another fast paced, engrossing suspense thriller from Minnesota’s master of the bizarre, Mike Faricy.

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Mr. Softee
Skirt chasing, dysfunctional PI Dev Haskell leaves his usual stool at the Spot bar to take on what looks like a cakewalk job, providing protection for Mr. Softee. Turns out Mr. Softee is anything, but... He’s a ruthless ‘entrepreneur’ with a flash temper, a mean streak a mile wide, a laundry list of people who want to do him in and a sex crazed girlfriend named Lola. Things go from bad to worse until Dev enlists the help of former client, sometime friend, and felon Tony “Dog” Colli. Murder, mayhem, double cross and bodies follow in their wake.  It’s the Saint Paul your mother warned you about, delivered with a healthy serving of the bizarre.

A fast paced tale of bottom feeders and criminal class. Mr. Softee is another journey through the screwed up world that is Dev Haskell’s life.

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