Kisses and Blood

Hard-nosed and hard-hearted detective - no, INVESTIGATOR - Gage Lucas wakes up from a drugged stupor to find himself alone, in an idling car - cash in the seat, blood on his collar, and a beautiful blonde vixen, dead in his back seat. The brilliant investigator's let this one get past him - and he has to work fast to piece together the broken puzzle-pieces of a conspiracy he's fallen face-first into, in the midst of a city sick with corruption. Kisses and Blood is a compelling 15,000-word short story, a lurid yarn woven in the dark, damp world of classic detective fiction.