Blog Me Deadly

<p><strong>Like if <em>Fletch</em> met <em>Travis McGee</em> ... and they started fighting. A short story collection about an artist and part-time private investigator.</strong></p><p> </p><p>He said he'd call the RCMP immediately and that I did some good work. He also told me to get the hell away from there. I was inclined to do what he said for once. I was standing in the middle of a downtown parking lot in someone else's bathing suit and flip-flops. And my hair was wet.</p><p> </p><p>Meet Zack Virtue. He makes a lot of bad decisions. The first was to become a full-time artist. The second was to moonlight as a private investigator.</p><p>Whether it's foiling nuclear terrorists and bank robbers or finding missing persons and beating the crap out of Russian mobsters Virtue is on the case. As a private investigator he's a great painter. As an artist he's a great magnet for bullets.</p><p> </p><p>Supporting him is Vijay Dhaliwal a computer genius who throws the occasional security agency job his way. He tries to lure Virtue into the business but our artist-turned-vet-turned-janitor-turned-artist wants nothing to do with Vijay's shenanigans. Until of course the money runs out.</p><p>Then there's William Lacroix the dude-bro cop who never grew up. Kind of like Peter Pan meets Joe Friday. Virtue puts up with his attitude in exchange for access to the police.</p><p> </p><p>In this collection of stories Zack Virtue tries to navigate the seedy world of private investigation while half-assing his way through the seedy world of professional artists.</p><p> </p><p>Blog Me Deadly is the title story where Virtue tries to blog his psychological issues away. He finds out quickly that even a baggage-laden artist with a highly varied skill set can become a force to be reckoned with-whether he's wielding a paintbrush or a gun.</p>