Books By R.M. Lowery
R.M. Lowery is the author of the award-winning Jakob Larsen Mysteries series.
Jakob Larsen Mysteries
The Gentle Slope
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. In the process, 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.
The Gentle Slope is the winner of the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Best Suspense Fiction.
We Kill Our Own
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 mid 2025.
Time Fades Away
More details coming soon…
The third book in the Jakob Larsen Mysteries series from Evolved Publishing, scheduled for release in early 2026.
Book one, The Gentle Slope, is available now in paperback and on all popular ebook platforms!
Book two is slated for release in 2025, with the third book in the series coming early 2026.
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Stand-Alone Books by R.M. Lowery
Tough Messes
Stories of Crime and Desperation
Tough Messes brings together eleven short stories featuring a range of characters from varied backgrounds. From a group of mob soldiers trying to mitigate blowback from decades-old deeds in “Moving Day,” to a low-level arms dealer trying to stay alive after present-day blowback in “Leaky Pipe,” to a man making his bones for a modern crime family in “Quality Time.”
In “Luxury Goods,” old-school grifters set their sights on a hapless mark in a hotel bar. And “Flush” takes readers into the world of a master safecracker on parole. Just days away from being clear of his past, he’s presented a shot at a lucrative score. If he pulls it off, he’ll clear six-figures, that is if his partners don’t kill him first.
Also featured in this collection is a story that takes readers inside the mind of a serial killer searching for a victim on the streets of Denver, a corporate nepo baby who pushes unchecked greed to the limits, a low-level drug dealer pushed into an impossible situation, a man trying to rebuild his life and save his nephew from the depths of addiction, a couple struggling to define right and wrong, and a man trying to escape his past—and his many enemies.
This collection of 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.
Coming This Summer
Laytons Grove
A Novel
Sean McKenna is a thief, and he’s good at it. It hasn’t made him rich, but he gets by. More importantly, it keeps him from falling into the dead-end employment trap that’s ensnared so many others in Laytons Grove, the small Illinois town where he’s spent his life.
Reagan McKenna stays clear of her brother’s business, but not his life. She would like him to rejoin the family he left many years ago, mostly to save their mother from a broken heart.
Sean is content with the life he’s forged though. He plans his jobs in great detail, always weighing the risk against the reward. However, his partners, Jack and Travis, are less calculating, and their recklessness attracts the attention of Detective Mary Morelli.
As Mary closes in on Sean and his friends, Jack proposes a job that Sean finds too risky and under planned, but Jack moves forward anyway, dragging Sean into the hasty scheme. The disastrous result shatters the peacefulness of the small town, places lives in danger, and inflicts irreparable damage to generations of families.
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