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A stranger pulls into a roadside bar and motel and gets an offer he can't refuse from a wily femme fatale intent on murder. Can she be trusted to keep her side of the bargain? Is anything ever what it seems? Candy Says Kill takes the reader on a whirlwind ride into deepest Alabama, where a gun for hire stops at a remote Motel and Bar on his way back to New York. A classic pulp fiction case of mistaken identity and opportunism leads him into the arms of fate in the form of a beautiful young woman intent on escaping her dreary life as a bar owner's wife. A double-cross, confusion and murder ...

A Modern picaresque novel following the exploits of Don Kehoe; a drunk, wife-beater and hack, as his life disintegrates around him. A whirlwind ride through the social underbelly, backside, and dark alleyways of Dublin City. A haze of beer-infected ribaldry and fornication that The Ginger Man himself would appreciate. Don Kehoe is a failing journalist with a thirst for beer and women and a propensity to use his fists when words would suffice. As Don's life disintegrates around him and his dreams of permanent paying employment slips slowly away, and his woman turfs him out on the streets of ...

Damned Nation, the second story in the Carroll and Grant series, follows Detective Sergeant Dan Carroll and his partner, Detective Constable Samuel Grant, of the London Metropolitan Police, as they endeavor to track down a group of satanists, hell-bent on wreaking havoc in the center of London.What is assumed to be a simple summertime graveyard prank in central London and a seemingly unconnected case of dogs being stolen leads Carroll & Grant on a desperate race against time to save the life of a stolen child that they believe will be used in a sacrificial rite.A Shot of Modern Noir.T.S. ...

What happens if you fall in love with the wrong person? Two friends, two artists, two men that love the same woman - a tragedy, an unforgivable deception and a chance to begin again. Killing a Friend is a book of love, longing and lust.T.S. O'Rourke's writing has been declared powerful and beautiful by both readers and critics alike.

Sharp Shots bring three of T.S. O'Rourke's hardboiled noir novelettes together in one ebook:* The ClubAn elderly rich couple employ the services of P.I. Jimmy O'Hanlon in a desperate search for their daughter who went missing after a high society sex party held by an exclusive private club. But is everything what it seems to be?* Sunset StripA travelling businessman meets a beautiful young Latina from the wrong side of the tracks. But everything starts to go wrong.On waking he finds his life turned upside down and all reason gone from his world. Caught in an impossible situation and running...

A Modern Noir novelette. When a rich old couple come looking for help to find their missing teenage daughter P.I. Jimmy O'Hanlon offers his services. Be he soon suspects that this isn't an ordinary missing persons case. Having disappeared at a hedonistic sex party held by an exclusive club, O'Hanlon realizes he'll need to call in some favors to get a lead on what might have happened that night. T.S. O'Rourke's writing has been declared powerful, beautiful and hard-boiled by both readers and critics alike.

A modern noir novelette. A man meets a beautiful young Latina from the wrong side of the tracks. She follows him back to his hotel on Sunset Boulevard and they have sex. But then everything starts to go wrong. Waking in the morning he finds his life turned upside down and all reason gone from his world. Caught in an impossible situation and running out of time he searches frantically for a way out. A Modern Noir tale. T.S. O'Rourke's writing has been declared powerful, beautiful and hard-boiled by both readers and critics alike.