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A DIRTY WAY TO DIE

 A Manny Shepherd P.I. Novel

 by J. Douglas Knauer

You think you’ve got problems?

Sherman “Manny” Shepherd is plagued by Shepherd’s Luck, an ability to sense that bad shit is about to happen…but not what or where.  He felt it again, just before he sat with his Vietnam vet buddy Steve and witnessed Steve’s girlfriend Rita Hayward get slammed in the mud to her death by a well-stacked gal calling herself Screaming Eagle.

 Mired in shock, guilt and a drunken haze, Steve pressures Manny, a local private eye with little on his plate, to figure out why Rita died like that with them and a SRO crowd watching and cheering at Peoria’s Heart of Illinois fair.  After all, back in earlier days at Neelys Landing, Missouri, Rita was a star gymnast.  So how could a simple Judo throw have killed her?

No way is Manny going to jeopardize his tenuous yet sensual relationship with Tazewell County’s District Attorney, Lisa Shelton, to hang around half-naked, oiled-bodied beauties with names like Virgin Witch, Passion Queen, Midnight Fire, and Holy Terror, just to find out the obvious – Princess Lay-ya aka Rita Hayward just took a bad…okay, seriously bad header.

Goaded by Steve’s heart-tugging story of Rita’s journey to professional mud wrestler fame, and haunted by Rita’s single staring dead eye watching him, Manny goes undercover and leaps onto the St. Louis Slingers tour bus.  Shepherd’s Luck bites him again, this time amidst boobs and bullets while he unravels the mystery and uncovers a scheming, sadistic killer.

Echelon Press will publish A Dirty Way to Die in August 2010 in eBook format. The novel will be available on Kindle, Nook and Fictionwise.com.