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Relapse may be common among opioid addicts, but Perry had stayed clean for ten years. So how did he wind up with two weeks he couldn’t remember and track marks in his arm? And who was the woman in the polaroid picture he found in his pocket? Not his wife from what he could see of her, which was nearly everything.
Perry Rieder suspects he might be leading a double life, and he’s hired detective Nick Hopper to catch his criminal side. The hunt for answers catapults Nick into a thicket of cruelty, corruption, and murder. Levenson’s neo-noir sets the classic hardboiled private detective in the modern west in a gripping tale of revenge.
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“They sat without speaking as the sirens headed towards them. Then Loren lunged for Nick, diving for the pistol between his legs. Nick put out a stiff arm that caught Loren on the shoulder and froze him in place. Nick used his right hand to hit him hard, open handed, forward and then again on the way back….”
A pair of bikers with a pitbull that only understands Czech, a set of con-artists that change their names more often than their socks, and the rightful heir to a sentimental treasure that they’re all hunting for. All these crash over Nick Hopper’s head in this hard-boiled detective novella.
Carol Kippers just wants her grandfather’s belt buckle returned. Her father lost it gambling to some rough folks. Nick agrees to recover it for her, and soon learns that he’s not the only one looking for it, and they’re willing to lie, cheat, and send bullets to get it.
Will Nick find the buckle in the sprawling streets of Phoenix? And will he return it to its rightful owner before it’s too late? Find out what happens in Fool’s Gold.
Don’t you know the Devil Lies?
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No matter how hot Phoenix got, Nick Hopper could not get out of the Valley of the Sun—not while questions of his estranged father’s murder remained unanswered. The case stalled, he could have minded his business when the woman ran terrified from the giant of a man in the diner parking lot. But protecting people like her was his business. At least it was until he got himself hurt, stranded, and out of options.
Alicia Towers had not left her house alone in four years. Members of Life Song Community Church looked after her; accompanied her on errands, or visited to sing hymns, if only from the other side of her bedroom window. So what made her leave home in the middle of the night? And where did she go?
When Nick discovers a connection from Alicia to his father, secrets unfold that will challenge his understanding of who his father really was. And it will have deadly consequences.
In this Neo-noir, Nick Hopper confronts the inner demons that lie and say, “The Devil Made Me Do It.”
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He Knew Better
While the the people and events in The Devil Made Me Do It are all fictional, the idea for the tale came from a real story. If you have already read the first Nick Hopper mystery, you will want to read this non-fiction piece, The Big Let Down.
If you haven’t read The Devil Made Me Do It yet, you can read the first few chapters for free here and you can find it on amazon. You’ll also receive the link to download The Big Let Down.
Reading The Big Let Down before reading the novel will spoil the mystery, so read on at your own risk.