THE DEAD DETECTIVE Available 10/27/14 Available for pre-order now (see below) **Teaser Sample** And, yeah, this is a heckuva teaser... ~~~~~~~ “How…how long..?” “I got shot sometime last night; I don’t know exactly when. But let’s say twelve hours or so ago. So, technically, I’ve been dead for twelve hours. No! Focus on me, Harper.” He seriously looks like he’s about to pass out now. “Here’s what I need from you. I need you to go in there and clean everything up, stitch my heart back together and whatever. Just like I was a normal, living human being, right? Then I need you to give me every test in the world—it can all go on my insurance. Then I need you to fake the results so I look like I’m okay. Can you do that for me? Because it’s the only way I can keep it together for my job, Harper. And…for my sanity, right? This needs to be just between us. Our secret. Please?” Of course, it’s getting to be a pretty open secret―first Captain Quirk found out, then Devon. But nobody would believe anything Devon says in a million years. In fact, they might not even believe the Cap. In fact, I’m not sure I even believe it yet. Certainly poor Harper is having his problems with the information, too. He just stands there tottering in front of me in his nice white lab coat, his mouth going all “gub, gub, gub,” sort of like a fish. That’s when I reach out with both hands to steady him, because I’m afraid he really will just fall over. “It’s not…it’s just not medically possible, Richie.” But I can tell he knows the score, because he’s trembling all over. Now he starts babbling. “Look, let me get you into ICU as soon as possible. There are all kinds of new revival techniques now―we can empty you of blood and freeze everything, run your heart and lungs off machines―we can―” “Baby, I’m dead,” I interrupt him gently. “Undead, anyway. I know it’s not possible, but it is what it is. I just have to deal with it. That’s what I need you for―to help me get through it.” I hadn’t meant to call him “baby”; it just kinda sorta slipped out. Old time’s sake. amazon/The-Dead-Detective-J-R-Rain-ebook/dp/B00NWSV0TM/
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