The Jacq of Spades

📖 The Scoop

1899 years after the Catastrophe, Bridges is owned by the Mob.

Jacqueline Spadros seems to have it all. Her father-in-law is the most feared man in Bridges. She lives in wealth and can do anything she pleases.

Except leave.

In an unwilling marriage and without enough money of her own to escape, Jacqui has secretly become a private eye. But a case comes up which threatens to make her nightmares a reality.

Dark, gritty, psychological, multi-layered Victorian-inspired far future detective noir that keeps the reader guessing to the very end.

Lovers of Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Bosch, The Expanse, Dune, or the Sherlock Holmes mysteries will enjoy this first chapter of the Red Dog Conspiracy.

The Jacq of Spades is part 1 of a 13-part serial novel:

1. The Jacq of Spades <- you are here

2. The Queen of Diamonds

3. The Ace of Clubs

4. The King of Hearts

5. The Ten of Spades

6. The Five of Diamonds

7. The Two of Hearts

8. The Three of Spades

9. The Knave of Hearts

10. The Four of Clubs (coming October 2023)

Warning: with child abduction, a corrupt government, domestic violence, gore, suicide, and murder, The Jacq of Spades is not for the faint of heart.

The Jacq of Spades was part of the first edition of the Dark Humanity science fiction and fantasy box set, which made #8 on the USA Today bestseller list for February 5, 2017, and #5 on the NY Times bestseller list for February 12, 2017.

Over 20,000 copies of The Jacq of Spades have been sold!

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Note: this story will be posted in serial form on Royal Road.

Genre: Fiction / Noir (fancy, right?)