Steve Laracy

My second book, Another Nice Mess, is now available on Amazon in Kindle and Paperback editions, along with the first book in the series, Traces of the Past. Check them out.

My novel Traces of the Past is now available at the Arena Hub Barnes and Noble in Wilkes-Barre Township (in the Mystery section). Stop by and pick up a copy and spread the news.

If you haven’t already, please consider purchasing a copy of Traces of the Past. By generating a few sales I hope to convince my publisher to publish the sequel. If you have read it, I would appreciate a review on Amazon.

Pass the word. Thanks.

Traces of the Past is now available from Sunbury Press and other online sites and hopefully will be in bookstores soon.

Sunbury Press has accepted my manuscript for Traces of the Past for publication. I am currently involved in the editing the manuscript and hopefully it will be published later this year.

My short story, Down for the Count, has been published in Crimson Streets Magazine. Click on the link and take a peek.

My first novel, Traces of the Past, is now available for purchase on Amazon. Click here to go to the Amazon sales page for the paperback, and here for the Kindle edition.

Thanks for your support.

Down for the Count, a Jack Kovacs crime story, has been accepted for publication in a future edition of Crimson Streets Magazine.

Traces of the Past is an as yet unpublished quirky mystery. When Milo Forbes, an unsuccessful private detective from the crowded streets of San Diego, finds himself stranded in the backwater desert town of Cordoba, he’s reluctantly recruited by the town’s mayor to help solve some open cases: reports of a prowler lurking around the town diner; the disappearance of vintage magazines from the doctor’s office; and, most importantly, the death of a local skydiver. Much to Milo’s misery, he finds the eccentric townsfolk and old-fashioned lifestyle of Cordoba very different from the modern, fast-paced city he’s used to.

With a nine-year-old girl as his unwanted but determined sidekick, Milo’s investigative trail leads him to an ex-boxer who channels Humphrey Bogart movies, a town matriarch with a secret past, and the elderly, lemonade-sipping, telescope-snooping Flagg sisters. He also crosses paths with Samantha, the owner of the local boardinghouse, and romance beckons. But just when it seems Milo has solved the mysteries and found love in the unlikeliest of locales, the discovery of human bones and suspicious activity at Samantha’s boardinghouse threaten to turn his life—and the lives of every Cordoba resident—upside down.

Read an excerpt.