-Author and Columnist-
J. Walt Layne
Welcome to Champion City
Welcome to Champion City. A megatropolis it isn’t. But you couldn’t arrive at that conclusion by looking at the police blotter. Most everyone in the city would tell you that a day in Champion City is like… A WEEK IN HELL!
Pro Se Productions introduces the first volume of the Champion City Series of Novels by author J. Walt Layne! A WEEK IN HELL
It all starts with a girl and a bag of cash. Candi was the kind of gal who could give a guy indigestion. She was poison, with looks to kill, a reluctant moll looking for a way out. Thurman was a young flatfoot, not necessarily the knight in shining armor. He went to shake out a brawl and nearly fed her his gun, was it any wonder he got a date? They spend an evening on the run, but where does it lead? Just when it looks like its over, BOOM! Is it a dead girl, a bag of somebody else’s dough, or both?
Breathless
Welcome back to Champion City. There’s a new medical examiner in town. Working girls and lonely hearts are catching a tough break on the streets of the city. An unknown killer, a quiet man of malevolent intention, is carousing in low places. A young patrolman catches a bullet when he interrupts the killer in the act. A stack of unsolved possibly related homicides point to a cover up. The previous medical examiner and a parish priest are sharing space in the morgue. The new ME appoints Thurman Dicke as a Special Investigator. Can he clear the cases, find the clues and catch the killer before the next anonymous girl dies? Or will he be, like the murderer’s victims, be left Breathless?
Breathless: A Tale from Champion City is the latest chapter in Author J. Walt Layne’s series from Pro Se Productions. The tale returns us to the mean streets with Thurman Dicke, first seen in A Week In Hell. Mixing the rawness of 1950s crime fiction with the sophisticated brutality of modern noir, Layne delivers another one two punch on this bloody return to Champion City. Follow Thurman Dicke into the shadowy alleys of depravity in Breathless by J. Walt Layne from Pro Se Productions.
Breathless: A Tale from Champion City featuring evocative cover art and logo design by Jeff Hayes and print formatting by Percival Constantine is available at Amazon or at Pro Se’s own store at http://tinyurl.com/q3got8g for only $9.00. The digest novel will be available in coming days as an eBook.
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Stranglehold
Rage! Frustration! Anger! Grief! Pain! Loss! A storm gathers around Thurman Dicke in his relentless pursuit of The Quiet Man. A previously ignored calling card comes to light and he's one step closer to nailing the strangler. The killer strikes close when Thurman uncovers the murder of a missing friend and almost takes his heart when the reckless killer in flight nearly kills someone dear. Headlong pursuit, Thurman Dicke and Bill Davis get too close and the killer lashes out. As the young gumshoe gets closer the killer becomes more unstable. Can Dwayne Rivers help put the last piece in place? There's a cost to pursuing a psychopath who holds Champion City in a Stranglehold. Stranglehold: A Tale of Champion City by Author J. Walt Layne (A Week in Hell, Breathless). From Pro Se Productions.