Every Breath You Take received Honorable Mention in The Murder Hole Strange Murders short short fiction contest.
Synopsis: The witness to a child's murder is forced to take justice into his own hands when the murderer is released because of a technicality.
When Words End has been submitted to Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine and has been accepted for later this year.
Synopsis: After Swede Havarti's personal assistant and lover is murdered, there's nothing left for Swede but revenge, delivered swift and with hot lead.
Plus Expenses appears at Literotica.
Synopsis: Hard-nosed PI gets more than his paycheck.
Special Sauce appears at Literotica.
Synopsis: Swede is called in by an old friend to find whose trying to extort a local businessman. Along the way, Swede gets caught up with some spicy ladies including his own secretary. By the end Swede gets his man, sorta.
Wash and Wax is targeted for Eros-Noir.
Synopsis: While Suzi is in Florida visiting her sister, Swede is called in to investigate a racketteering operation that is trying to muscle in on his favorite Korean massage parlor. While staking out the place and enjoying a complimentary Wash and Wax, Swede not only nabs the bad guy, but catches one of the ladies trying to lift his hard earned cash from his wallet. Swede turns over the bad guy to the mammasan to deal with and takes matters into his own hands in the discipline of his pretty would-be thief. This is story three in the Swede Harvarti Investigates series.
Panties is targeted for Clean Sheets.
Synopsis: Saturday morning finds Swede waking up and sitting on the edge of his bed contemplating the basket of freshly washed laundry that his secretary and live-in partner, Suzi, has set down next to bed for him to put away. While putting their clothes away, Swede contemplates his appreciation of Panties.
Tell is targeted for The Gettysburg Review.
Synopsis: Boone is a hitman working for Vegas numbers runners, along with his driver a wise guy in training, he hunts down those who've gambled away their most precious commodity, their own lives. In Tell, Boone tracks down a gambler with a $200,000 mark that has been left unpaid too long and collects the debt in a dark alley while the snow falls silently around him.
Freddie is targeted for the Suspect Thoughts Press's Love Under Foot: An Erotic Celebration of Feet anthology. Guidelines for the anthology are available on the Suspect Thoughts Web Site.
Synopsis: Swede Havarti meets many unique individuals in his line of work as a Private Investigator and Freddie the Foot Fetish is one of the uniquest. Freddie hires Swede to tail his current lover and to see if his feet have straid to another.
Dyin' in Three Fourths the Time is targeted for an invitation only anthology.
Synopsis: Swede Havarti is called in by an old friend to investigate the shooting of a 15 year old on Mother's Day. Was it the father of her child? The stranger she was seen speaking with just before the three shots ended her life? Or someone else? The clues are there and it's up to Havarti to find the killer in a city where the girl's murder is just one of many that go unsolved.
