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Dive Bartender: Flowers in the Desert (ebook + paperback)

Sequel to Dive Bartender: Sibling Rivalry

by T.K. O’Neill  

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It’s 1977 and Frank Ford is running from his life and for his life. 

Following the suspicious suicide of his brother Ray and Frank’s own role in the death of twin sisters clearly culpable in Ray’s demise, he hits the road, leaving Minnesota for the promised land, California–with a dog-eared paperback copy of Kerouac’s On the Road as his roadmap. True to its protagonist’s journey, Frank makes a stop in Denver to look up an old friend–in his case high school buddy and former Arizona Amateur Tennis Champion, Larry Richards, now a divorce attorney allegedly raking in the cash, hand over fist. 

Larry’s seemingly successful life was anything but, and Frank gets caught up in Larry’s fraying web of deals and deceit, leading him farther away from California and closer to the same muck he left behind in Minnesota.

Enter the captivating and gifted songwriter Evelyn Raines, lead singer of Evie and the Desert Flowers. The righteous Bill Cross, new roommate, fellow bartender at DJ’s and former Arizona Gold Gloves light heavyweight champion. Clayton Cook and Bryce Parker–entitled, corrupt and twisted. Arturo Reynolds, Denver gangster. Javier Raines, Evie’s faithful brother and manager. A cast of characters that seems to conspire to keep Frank from his Kerouac dream.

Northwoods Pulp Reloaded (ebook)

by T.K. O’Neill

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Friendly campfires and twinkling stars can conceal a vast darkness in the great northern forest. Some say it’s in the land itself. Others point to the people who live there. The raw and plaintive stories in T.K. O’Neill’s Northwoods Pulp Reloaded allow for both possibilities.

“Hole in the World” Accompanied by an Indian guide with special skills, a renegade member of the trench coat gang heads north for his share, his woman and his freedom.

“Snowmobile Stick-up” Outlaw snowmobilers heist a bank during a driving blizzard and discover pursuers other than the law.

“The Devil You Say” A down-on-his-luck reporter believes he’s found his ticket to the big time with his investigation of devil worship in a small, Wisconsin town.

“My Ship Comes In” Two dead men in his wake, a Minnesota man flees to every northerner’s preferred hideout: Florida. But temptation is everywhere in the Sunshine State and soon he finds himself waiting on a remote beach for a sailboat loaded with contraband. Complications ensue.

Jackpine Savages (ebook + paperback)

by T.K. O’Neill  

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Carter Brown always wanted to be a private eye. Thanks to an inheritance from a well-to-do uncle and an online P.I. diploma, the dream is realized. When word spreads of a homegrown P.I. in the backwoods of northern Minnesota and Carter lands his first case through a drinking buddy, Brown Investigations is born. Before he can cash his first check for services rendered, however, Brown finds himself locked up on a murder charge, wondering what the hell happened. Forced to clear his name, Brown must navigate through a host of bizarre characters including a steroid freak, a meth head, traffickers in illegal animal parts, predatory females, a forger and a sex addict.

T.K. O’Neill’s first Carter Brown novel, Jackpine Savages, is hard-boiled detective fiction in the tradition of Ross MacDonald and Robert B. Parker, set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior.

Dive Bartender: Sibling Rivalry (ebook + paperback)

by T.K. O’Neill 

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Frank Ford is a survivor of 10 long years at the Metropole Bar, where he’s babysitter and alcohol dealer to Zenith City’s derelict class: the misfits, the losers, the crazies, the old fading lushes, and, of course, the budding young alcoholics unaware or indifferent to what lies ahead.

Set in 1977, Dive Bartender: Sibling Rivalry combines elements of David Goodis and Raymond Chandler with the popular culture of the era to form a pulp-style novel filled with sex, drugs, violence and smelt fishing—the essence of classic northern noir.

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Also available at online bookstores–

South Texas Tangle (ebook)

by T.K. O’Neill 

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T.K. O’Neill’s crime e-novel written in tribute to Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake.

Dead Low Winter (ebook)

A Northwoods Noir Story

by T.K. O’Neill

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Originally published in somewhat different form as “Social Climbing,” one of four stories published under the pseudonym Thomas Sparrow in his 1999 debut Northwoods Pulp: Four Tales of Crime and Weirdness and later translated into Japanese and published by Fushosha.

It’s the mid-1970’s and, in his search for a way out of the mire that had become his life, sometimes-cab driver Keith Waverly finds himself in deeper than his wildest nightmares. At odds with both conventional life and life outside convention, looking for a way to break free without giving in, Keith tries to control his fate, but ends up a pawn in someone else’s bigger game.  The vast darkness of the north woods provides a chilling backdrop and powerful force to Dead Low Winter.

Fly in the Milk (ebook)

by T.K. O’Neill

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It’s early March and a battered, steaming wreck lays at the bottom of a 50-foot cliff. Former boxing champion Johnny Beam is found crumpled and broken behind the steering wheel. Beam was a gambler, in trouble with the law—and now dead. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? How did the former hero end up like this? In the lily-white northern town of Zenith, Minnesota, only one thing was certain: Johnny Beam stood out like a fly in a bottle of milk.

Fly in the Milk is a work of crime fiction, a provocative tale of death, betrayal and hypocrisy spanning three generations.

To contact Bluestone Press or T.K. O’Neill, email bluestonepress@outlook.com or call 218.724.5806