Everything is Broken (Fuzzy Koella, Book 1) by Anthony DeCastro
Release date: October 8, 2018
Subgenre: Hard-boiled mystery
About Everything is Broken:
A Girl. A Private Eye. A World of HurtPrivate
Investigator Fuzzy Koella likes working the infidelity trade in Myrtle
Beach. Taking pictures of cheating spouses provides enough income to
support his spartan existence.
But when an old friend hires him to peep on the seductive, young Marisol Rodriguez, Fuzzy finds himself caught in an impossible situation. Does he do his job? Or does he try to save Marisol from the violent men she attracts?
The simple path always appeals to Fuzzy, but Marisol needs him more than he or she knows.
Can a decent man save all that he holds dear? Or will he find Everything is Broken, including himself? If you love hard-boiled detective stories in the spirit of Travis McGee and Philip Marlowe, meet Fuzzy Koella in his debut adventure, Everything is Broken.
But when an old friend hires him to peep on the seductive, young Marisol Rodriguez, Fuzzy finds himself caught in an impossible situation. Does he do his job? Or does he try to save Marisol from the violent men she attracts?
The simple path always appeals to Fuzzy, but Marisol needs him more than he or she knows.
Can a decent man save all that he holds dear? Or will he find Everything is Broken, including himself? If you love hard-boiled detective stories in the spirit of Travis McGee and Philip Marlowe, meet Fuzzy Koella in his debut adventure, Everything is Broken.
Excerpt:
Chapter One
Billy “Sample” Smith was a
low-level dealer of weed and pills, who stayed out of trouble with the law by
simply lacking any ambition. He spent his days playing video games at wherever
he was shacking for free, and his nights selling dime bags to rich kids
wandering around Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach.
I didn’t like Billy, but I had when
we were younger. Back when he had earned his nickname.
It was a night in college,
sophomore year, at one of the many strip clubs that flourished in the Strand.
Billy escorted one of the girls to the Champagne Room. When she came back down
twenty minutes later with a sodden Billy holding her hand like a little boy,
she said, “Okay, I’ve had my free sample. Now I’m ready for the full dish.
Who’s next?”
Billy stood about five-three and
weighed maybe 120 pounds after a full meal. The stripper could have referred to
his stature, but a bunch of college guys would never come to that conclusion.
So, Billy spent the rest of his college days fending off teases about the size
of his manhood. College only lasted a few more months for Billy. But the name,
“Sample”, stuck to this day.
Like I said, I didn’t like Sample,
but in my business, it helps to have a conduit to the seedy side of the Beach.
And he’d done me a solid in that regard many times. So, when he texted me
saying he had work for me and asked me to meet him at the Second Avenue Fishing
Pier, I didn’t stop to think whether I wanted to work for dirty money, or ask
whether the work would involve me breaking any laws. I just agreed to meet him
at 10 p.m. at the end of the Pier. Legality, prison time, or a knifing by rival
dealers, I pondered on the ride over.
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About Anthony DeCastro:
Anthony DeCastro is a life-long fan
of detective fiction. He has designed religious facilities where thousands of
people worship every weekend, managed the construction of industrial factories
for a multi-national corporation, and played minor league baseball for three weeks.
Through all of it he has written. He figures it’s time to let the world read
his stories. Everything is Broken is his first novel.
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