“Trouble Like A Freight Train Coming” is a prequel to
the Tai Randolph series. It's set in Savannah several years prior to the inheritance of
her Atlanta gun shop and her first encounter with security agent Trey
Seaver, who ultimately becomes her partner in both romance and crime
solving. For readers familiar with the rest of Tai’s adventures, this
story is a chance to watch her develop her sleuthing chops. For those
meeting Tai for the first time...welcome to her slightly reckless,
somewhat hungover, not-quite-respectable world.
Tai is accustomed to murder and mayhem . . .
of the fictional variety. As a tour guide in Savannah, Georgia, she’s
learned the tips are better when she seasons her stories with a little
blood here, a little depravity there. She’s less experienced in real
life criminality, however, preferring to spend her days sleeping late
and her nights hitting the bars. But when she gets the news that her
trouble-making cousin has keeled over while running a marathon, Tai
finds herself in a hot mess of treachery and dirty dealings. Worst of
all, the clues lead her straight into the moonshine-soaked territory of
the most infamous smuggler in Chatham County—her Uncle Boone.
"Trouble" is available as a part of Lowcountry Crime: Four Novellas in both print and e-book, but it is also available as a standalone in Kindle, Nook, iBooks, Google Play, and Kobo. So check it out!
You can read more about the story's Bonaventure Cemetery setting—and sneak at peek at the opening scene—at Writers Who Kill.
The entire LOWCOUNTRY CRIME: FOUR NOVELLAS anthology is now available not just on Amazon, but also on Nook, iBooks, Google Play and Kobo.
LOWCOUNTRY: That portion of the Southeastern United States characterized
by low country, generally flat—whether barrier island, tidal marsh,
tidal river valleys, swamps, piney forests, or great cities like
Charleston and Savannah.
CRIME: An act, forbidden by a public law, that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law.
These
four novellas capture the unique aspects of the Lowcountry with stories
incorporating Charleston high life and Savannah low life, island
vacations and life on a boat. You’ll be treated to thieves doing good
and rapscallions doing bad, loves won and loves lost, family relations
providing wonderful support and life after divorce.
Each novella
can be read in a single hour to hour-and-a-half sitting or enjoyed at a
more leisurely pace, stopping at white space along the way. Within the
broad range of the crime genre, these tales fit “north of cozy” and
“south of noir.”
“Trouble Like A Freight Train Coming” by Tina
Whittle is a prequel to her Tai Randolph Mysteries. Tai is accustomed to
murder and mayhem . . . of the fictional variety. As a tour guide in
Savannah, Georgia, she’s learned the tips are better when she seasons
her stories with a little blood here, a little depravity there. She’s
less experienced in real life criminality, however, preferring to spend
her days sleeping late and her nights hitting the bars. But when she
gets the news that her trouble-making cousin has keeled over while
running a marathon, Tai finds herself in a hot mess of treachery and
dirty dealings. Worst of all, the clues lead her straight into the
moonshine-soaked territory of the most infamous smuggler in Chatham
County—her Uncle Boone.
The novella is set in Savannah several
years prior to the inheritance of her Atlanta gun shop and her first
encounter with security agent Trey Seaver, who ultimately becomes her
partner in both romance and crime solving. For readers familiar with the
rest of Tai’s adventures, this story is a chance to watch her develop
her sleuthing chops. For those meeting Tai for the first time...welcome
to her slightly reckless, somewhat hungover, not-quite-respectable
world.
In “Last Heist” by Polly Iyer, Paul Swan travels the world
buying exotic automobiles for wealthy clients, but underneath his
believable cover is a first-class, never-been-caught diamond thief.
When
he sees a picture in the Charleston newspaper of a magnificent diamond
necklace on the wife of a visiting South American strongman, he can’t
resist the temptation to steal it. Paul doesn’t anticipate what he finds
in the hotel room’s safe besides the jewels. Now he has to figure out
how to stop a political catastrophe without exposing himself as the
thief who stole the diamonds, and he has three people complicating his
effort: a sexy TV reporter angling for a story, a suspicious cop eager
for an arrest, and a rogue mercenary bent on ending his life.
“Blue
Nude,” by Jonathan M. Bryant introduces us to Brad Sharpe, who has
problems. Not just the problems you would expect resulting from
traumatic injury and a destructive divorce. His ex-wife has gone missing
and a priceless Picasso has been stolen. The cops have pegged Brad as a
person of interest in both cases. Worse, a violent sociopath might want
Brad dead. Only with the help of friends and his knowledge of the
Georgia Lowcountry can Brad fight to clear his name and resolve the case
of the Blue Nude.
In “Low Tide at Tybee,” James M. Jackson
brings three of his Seamus McCree series characters (Seamus, his
darts-throwing mother, and his now six-year-old granddaughter, Megan) to
Tybee Island, Georgia to vacation and escape winter up north. Megan
spots a thief going through their beach bags, after which their vacation
unravels with a series of twists and turns that will leave you guessing
until the end, trying to figure out who done what.
“Trouble Like A Freight Train Coming” is a prequel to
the Tai Randolph series. It's set in Savannah several years prior to the inheritance of
her Atlanta gun shop and her first encounter with security agent Trey
Seaver, who ultimately becomes her partner in both romance and crime
solving. For readers familiar with the rest of Tai’s adventures, this
story is a chance to watch her develop her sleuthing chops. For those
meeting Tai for the first time...welcome to her slightly reckless,
somewhat hungover, not-quite-respectable world.
