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The
Stable Vices Affair
By G.W. Renshaw
The Chandler Affairs, Book
1
Javari Press
Genre: Paranormal
Mystery
Veronica Chandler has
worked hard to become a private investigator. At the age of eight she got a
baton for Christmas—just like Mummy’s. At 12, she started working at her
father’s restaurant so she’d have the money for the investigator’s course. At
16, she became an intern with the Calgary Police Service. And now, at 18, she's
the youngest licensed PI in Alberta.
As her ex-boyfriend can
attest, she has the skills. As a psychotic killer discovers, she has the will.
Now she’s ready to take on the world: To find the lost and expose the
faithless.
None of which prepare
her for a house that can’t decide whether it’s empty, one or two perverse
dwarfs with a bizarre hold over their victims, a kinky pony show, and a secret
global organization. Every clue leads to more questions. Four lives depend on
Veronica finding the answers.
And then there’s that
pesky losing-your-soul thing.
Excerpt from The Stable Vices AffairThere was sharp pain in my foot as the bat struck it, but my boot absorbed most of it. I wiggled harder. My coat got caught on something, and I strained to get away. Just as he grabbed both of my legs, and hauled me out into the street again, my hand grabbed something hard and cold.There was no thought of consequences as I came out into the sunlight. Danielle’s gun was heavy in my frozen hands as I raised it to the looming shadow overhead.At that range it would have been almost impossible to miss. As he screamed again I squeezed the trigger. A hole appeared in his chest. He looked surprised.I managed to squeeze off another round as he began to crumple straight down. It reminded me of video of a building being demolished with explosives.Two rounds. Centre of mass. Just like in the simulator. I would have shot him more times if I could have gotten my fingers to work faster. I wasn’t consciously trying for a double tap.The sound of the shots was deafening. Afterwards, all I could hear was a high-pitched whine in my head. My ears were not impressed by all they’d been through in the past few minutes.I couldn’t breathe. Maybe it was the cold.Pain. Cold. Wetness. Silence. Blood.For a blessedly long time I lay there staring at Danielle. Waiting for the monster to rise again from behind her.Slowly, I started noticing other things. People on the sidewalks were running away, or standing with their mouths open. They were probably screaming, but I couldn’t hear anything but that whine.
The
Prince and the Puppet Affair
The Chandler Affairs, Book
2
Alyssa Blakeway is so
submissive it’s a miracle she left her house, let alone asked Veronica to find
out if her abusive husband is also cheating on her.
When Veronica finds out
who Collin Blakeway is actually going to see, things go from bad to worse to
deadly. They also challenge Veronica’s most deeply held beliefs as she
discovers that demons and magic are real.
It’s no longer a matter
of saving a marriage. Now she has to save the lives of Alyssa, her sister Kali,
an unknown woman, and herself. All while avoiding being killed by her sister
for acting stupidly.
If an arborist, a coven
of Witches, the Vatican, the Freemasons, a Native Elder, and an old bicycle
can’t save them, who can?
The
Kalevala Affair
The Chandler Affairs, Book
3
Being shot at and
landing in protective custody certainly cramps a PI’s style, so when a group of
collectors want Veronica to track down an historical artifact in England, she
jumps at the chance. They’ll even handle recovery, so all she has to do is find
the item. It’s a piece of cake.
There are a few details
that were left out. Everybody is after this thing. Veronica has to
dodge bullets meant for another PI, get chased all over Europe by Finnish
terrorists, tries not to violate every national park in the world, and has to
put up with an English investigator who insists on accompanying her.
Of course, the artifact
turns out to be more dangerous than she was led to believe. Veronica has to
trust somebody who tried to remove her head, decide the fate of the world, and
survive an angry volcano. At least she’s getting paid for it. If she can
collect.
The True
Love Affair
The Chandler Affairs, Book
4
Veronica has just
gotten home after solving a minor case in Mexico involving kidnapping,
betrayal, bank fraud, and a Colombian drug cartel when an old acquaintance show
up to hire her. Somebody has been committing impossible murders all over the
world, and Veronica is the only person qualified to stop the killer before the
body count soars.
The problems start with
her client. Can she trust a demon prince not to send her back to therapy or
worse for another year? What, if any, is his hidden agenda? Is anything at all
as it seems?
Veronica thought she
had a handle on magic and demons, but as soon as she starts investigating it’s
obvious that all the rules have changed. She’s playing in the big leagues now,
and she’s going to have to move heaven and hell to keep humanity alive.
Starting with herself.
Now, if she can only
survive dinner with her family, a blind date, a small immigration problem, and
working with the federal cabinet, it’s possible that all will be well.
Or at least as well as
it can be when you have to deal with insane immortals and a talking cat.
G.W. Renshaw lives in Calgary,
Alberta with his lovely wife and Romulus the cat. He likes to write stories
that range from the unusual to the bizarre.
He has picked up a
variety of skills over the years: gunner in the Canadian Forces, practitioner
of Iwama-style Aikido, Krav Maga, and Chito Ryu Karate, computer programmer,
Linux druid, Search and Rescue manager, caving, rock climbing, and archery. He
learned man tracking from Terry Grant (the original
ManTracker on TV).
He also learned a variety of medieval skills while in the Society for Creative
Anachronisms.
G.W. writes when he
isn’t maintaining the web site for When
Words Collide, being beaten senseless by his young padawan, or working at
Mount Royal University, the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, or the Cumming School of Medicine.
He claims to have a
firm grip on reality, but seems unaware that it is slowly turning purple. He
will happily watch just about any film with monsters in it.
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