By Brent Linstrom

In the gritty human city of Spur Central, trouble is brewing. It always is.

The entire cosmos is about to ratchet its Great Gears and pit all sentient animals against each other in a long awaited war to see who gets to ascend to the next realm. None of that matters to Dick hu’Mar, a private investigator that’s too good for his own good. When he and his sour faced partner, an ugly stinking cat, get hired by two dames in dire need of a mystery solved, they find themselves plunged into the politics and danger of this pre-steampunk world where highly leathered brawn beats against brains every day.

With little time to work–love, lives, and money, most especially money are on short supply, hu’Mar must solve the case and if he can help it, avoid getting killed himself.

This Novel is a cross between the classic Noir style of hard-boiled detective, mixed with high fantasy, in a sword and sorcery sort of way, with the hints of a steampunk era nearly upon them. This is a clean read, but one that still has a comedic and sometimes dark humor.

ISBN: 978-1943239184

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By Brent Linstrom

In a small rural community in war-torn Asia, people live in fear of poverty, sorcery, and wild creatures. Among these wild myths is a mysterious bloodthirsty killer known in most circles as The Hangman of the Woods.

Every child is warned not to venture into the woods. The witches and their equally hated rivals, the Believers, are known to frequent this dense stretch of forest, but none is as feared as the hangman. The witches and believers may have spells to bind you to them, but at least you live. Few have seen the hangman and survived to tell about it. That is all about to change in this inspiring adventure of a young man and his quest to understand himself, his world, God, and yes, the Hangman of the woods.

No coming of age novel is quite like this. One boy’s quest to become a man in a backward world, a world ripe for change, a world where anything can happen.

Iddo, is a doctor in a journalists skin. Pressure from poverty stricken parents force him to follow a path that is not his own. But when Iddo’s father passes away, he’s given permission to cross the woods and attend the medical university. But those forbidden woods will forever change his life.

ISBN: 978-1943239214

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