Coming Soon: Kansas City Breakdown
May 1952. Mobsters, molls, and muscle are meeting in Kansas City to carve out territory, make deals, assert influence. They come from Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans, Detroit … By plane, by car, and, in the case of mid-level heavy Mike Abati, by train from San Francisco. The FBI sees an opportunity. A chance to get close to the man, gather information, and have eyes and ears on the conference. A honey trap. Tom Keegan, San Francisco PD homicide detective, knows the right woman for the job. She’s smart and cool. Seductive. Fearless. A rare and fiery combination of brass and sass. Would she agree to put her life on the line? If her cover is blown, she’s dead. Besides, Vivian Davis, aka professional assassin Gunselle, doesn’t do favors for cops. But Tom’s doing the asking and it makes Vivian’s heart beat a little faster.
The job isn’t all it appears to be. It comes with a side of betrayal. Because, after all, a girl has to look out for herself.
Kansas City Breakdown is the sizzling follow-up to Bop City Swing, and the new joint project of Russell Thayer, author of the Gunselle stories, and M.E. Proctor, author of the Declan Shaw PI series.
Catch Me on a Blue Day
“I’ve been reading mystery novels for 60 years. I’ve read noir mysteries and police procedurals and historical mysteries and cozy mysteries and you name it. In all that time, I’ve read few mystery writers as good as M.E. Proctor. In Catch Me on a Blue Day, she combines the strengths of the best of the best mystery writers, writers like Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, and Janet Evanovich, to create a mystery novel that will have you saying, where has this terrific mystery writer been all my life?”
—John Guzlowski, author of Suitcase Charlie, a Hank and Marvin mystery
“Catch Me on a Blue Day is a speedboat of a detective yarn, sleek and sexy and fast as hell. You’ll love it.”
—Nick Kolakowski, author of Where the Bones Lie
“Declan Shaw is back, and this time he’s investigating a friend’s suicide—one that Declan finds too suspicious to leave alone. Catch Me on a Blue Day takes us to the quaint New England town of Old Mapleton, where secrets lie behind every door, and even the art galleries hide plots of violence, sex, and intrigue. In M.E. Proctor’s capable hands, Declan shines as a determined champion of the truth, one whose struggles and complexities make him a worthy hero. Proctor’s succulent dialogue makes the cast of characters spring to life as the plot moves from compelling mystery to imminent peril, and finally, to a conclusion that is both harrowing and satisfying. In the annals of mystery books, private investigators abound—but there can only be one Declan Shaw. This is the PI series you’ve been waiting for.”
—C.W. Blackwell, author of Hard Mountain Clay
Love You Till Tuesday
a Declan Shaw mystery
Published by Shotgun Honey Books
Available in E-Book and Paperback
“Love You Till Tuesday by M.E. Proctor is an absolute page-turner, packed with superb characters and thrilling twists. This detective-thriller is hands down the best I’ve read this year!”
—Steve Thomas, Best Thriller Books.
Bop City Swing
a Tom Keegan / Vivian Davis retro-noir
Published by Cowboy Jamboree Press
Available in E-Book and Paperback
“A wild ride down the neon-lit streets of post-WWII America, with bebop wailing in the nightclub on the corner, the white witch pumping through the veins of the junkie on the barstool, three slugs draining the life from the charismatic politician with a shady past, and enough snappy dialogue to light up the faces of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain.”
—Douglas Lumsden, author of the Alexander Southerland, P.I. Series.
