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Patricia Loofbourrow
An unprecedented heat and humidity has fallen upon the city of Bridges. People are dying. Crops are failing. And the Inventors can't find the cause.
With all she's learned in…
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In a future world, a mafia wife secretly investigating a child abduction is targeted in a plot against her crime syndicate and the corrupt government it controls. A pulp crime…
She wanted an easy case ... she got a disaster.
Private eye Jacqueline Spadros, recovering from her harrowing experiences the week prior, wants nothing more than a simple, straightforward case…
Private eye and mobster's moll Jacqueline Spadros investigates the death of her family friend while planning to escape the city with her lover. But will the secrets she's kept ruin…
When a private eye is accused of a crime she didn't commit, help comes from an unexpected source.
A PI searches for the leader of a gang targeting her and her family.
A police constable’s obsession with a missing boy and the murders surrounding his disappearance throws him into a collision with the city’s ruling crime family.
Private investigator Jacqueline Spadros is asked to mediate in a dispute between two of the Four Families of Bridges. What could possibly go wrong?
A drive-by shooting leaves private eye and mafia moll Jacqueline Spadros with little remaining support for the life she’s built apart from her estranged husband Tony.
As evidence grows that…
As a private eye closes in on her city’s secrets, there are those who will go to any lengths to stop her.
After the horrific events of our last chapter…
A young man sold into servitude has his loyalties tested in ways he never imagined.
Raised in an orphanage in Dickens, Daniel doesn’t know who his parents were, where he…
She barely survived the last round. As the Red Dog Gang closes in on her Family, can she survive the next?
After the devastating events of our last chapter, all…
Enjoy the next chapter in this dark, psychological, steam-powered future mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Patricia Loofbourrow.
Recovering from the tremendous losses she's suffered in our last…
1899 years after the Catastrophe, the city of Bridges is run by the Mob. Private eye and mafia wife Jacqueline Spadros turns down a case too hot to handle -…
1899 years after the Catastrophe, Bridges is run by the Mob. A private eye turns down a case too hot to handle - that is, until the scoundrel stalks her.
When a private eye is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, help comes from an unexpected source.
How far would you go to save your city from a madman?
Fifteen hundred years after the Catastrophe, Inventor Benjamin Kerr built the domed neo-Edwardian city-state of Bridges in the…
After financial ruin and zeppelin disaster, private eye and mobster’s moll Jacqueline Spadros investigates her friend’s death while planning to escape Bridges with her lover. But will the secrets she’s…
After financial ruin and zeppelin disaster in the city of Bridges, private eye and mobster’s moll Jacqueline Spadros investigates the death of her family friend while planning to escape the…
Private eye and mobster’s moll Jacqueline Spadros, hired by a jewel merchant styling herself The Queen of Diamonds, becomes caught up in a web of lies and blackmail. Jacqui must…
