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Hard-Boiled and Loaded With Sin

Multiple authors

Hawkshaw’s debut crime fiction anthology features a collection of short stories that’ll hook you from page 1. Additional info, including contributors, coming soon!

ARRIVING JUNE 2023

Broadway: a Charlotte Smart Mystery

by Stan Charnofsky

Charlotte Smart returns in an all-new adventure! This time, our senior sleuth finds herself in The Big Apple, helping a family member solve a mystery. Charlotte teams up with a local cop, and it’s anything but smooth sailing.

ARRIVING APRIL 2023

Let’s Say Jack Kennedy Killed the Girl

by William F. Crandell

Award-winning author William F. Crandell unleashes The Jack Griffin Detective Series, a hard-hitting, hard-boiled crime series that merges the style of Raymond Chandler with jaw-dropping elements of historical fiction. In this first volume, JFK is alive and well, but that may quickly change as the young Senator finds himself accused of murder. Griffin’s on the case, but will he be able to exonerate JFK, identify the true killer, overcome his own personal demons, and live to tell the tale? Midwest Book Review calls LET’S SAY JACK KENNEDY KILLED THE GIRL it “an exceptional read.” Order from Amazon, or from the Devil’s Party Store. DPP Store order will include a limited-edition, custom-designed bookplate autographed by the author and unavailable anywhere else!

Accident: a Charlotte Smart Mystery

by Stan Charnofsky

Book 2 in Stan Charnofsky’s acclaimed Charlotte Smart Mystery Series finds our amateur sleuth enlisted to help determine if a purported accident wasn’t, in fact, something more sinister. Greg Smart has flown in from California for his big sister Charlotte’s 70th birthday. Charlotte, the previous year, solved a murder when Greg visited her at her retirement village. She has just been asked, by the police officer who took a shine to her during the prior case, to take a look at a baffling hit and run “accident” that has left one victim dead, and, Charlotte weeps to discover, the victim is a child, and the second victim, the child’s older sister, injured. Charlotte agrees to help immediately, and as soon as the two meet the child bonds with Charlotte who takes her under her wing. Charlotte will not let this child be hurt again. Meanwhile Greg continues to have an unexpectedly interesting love life while he and Charlotte work together to help to piece the child’s life and family back together by bringing a murderer to justice
Don’t miss this engaging cozy mystery series best enjoyed on a cool, rainy day.

Charlotte: a Charlotte Smart Mystery

by Stan Charnofsky

Presenting Charlotte, book 1 in Stan Charnofsky’s Charlotte Smart Mystery Series, and the inaugural release from the Devil’s Party crime imprint, Hawkshaw Press.

Book 1 of this cozy mystery finds retiree Charlotte Smart on the trail of a murderer after her friend, Claire Hazelton, is found dead. Claire’s granddaughter, Meredith, also suspects foul play. Soon it appears as if Charlotte may be the killer’s the next victim. Can she solve the mystery before the murderer strikes?

Don’t miss this engaging mystery tale!