From award-winning crime writer R.M. Lowery, Tough Messes: Eleven Stories of Crime and Desperation features a range of characters from mafia soldiers to desperate men forced into impossible situations.
Stories include “Moving Day,” “Flush,” “I Like You, You Seem Nice,” “Luxury Goods,” and many others.
This collection of eleven stories, available for the first time in a single volume, is a welcome addition to the library of anyone who enjoys crime, noir, and mystery fiction.
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The Gentle Slope, R.M. Lowery’s first novel in the Jakob Larsen Mysteries series, is available now in paperback and on all popular ebook platforms.
Someone murdered sixteen-year-old Grace Sutherland and dumped her body along the riverbank.
The news shocks most in the Midwest town of Stonebridge, but for reporter Jakob Larsen, her death dredges up particularly bad memories. Two years ago, his father was murdered, and police have yet to make an arrest.
Knowing the pain the girl’s family feels, Jakob is determined to find answers for them. Answers his family still doesn’t have. But as Jakob hunts for the truth, he uncovers details that could rip the Sutherland family apart.
The Gentle Slope is the winner of the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Best Suspense Fiction.
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We Kill Our Own
Book 2 in The Jakob Larsen Mysteries
Someone is killing drug dealers and some in the Midwest town of Stonebridge speculate that a vigilante is behind the violence. Others believe it’s merely fallout from ongoing gang wars.
Reporter Jakob Larsen isn’t content with either opinion. When he starts digging for answers, he discovers massive corruption within the police department and a link to a powerful cartel, information that places him and those closest to him in grave danger.
Follow-up on the tension-packed action from the award-winning first book in the Jakob Larsen Mysteries series with We Kill Our Own, scheduled for release in fall of 2025.
R.M. Lowery
R.M. Lowery is the award-winning author of the Jakob Larsen Mysteries—The Gentle Slope, We Kill Our Own, and Time Fades Away, as well as Tough Messes: Eleven Stories of Crime and Desperation. His short fiction has also appeared in Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Workers Write, The First Line, and others. Lowery currently lives in Colorado with his beautiful wife and their clowder (of cats).
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