Big Hairy Deal

By Russ Crossley

After being transported to an alternate universe, Aloha Armstrong, the Woman from L.I.P.S, and her on-again, off-again boyfriend Matt, start a private detective agency. Unfortunately old foes are as real here as ever. 

A new Aloha Armstrong adventure you won't want to miss.

• Language: English
• Publisher: 53rd Street Publishing
• Release date: Jun 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781513011455

Russ Crossley

International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge of the Lushites, is a sequel to Attack of the Lushites released in 2011. The latest title in the series was released in the fall of 2013. Both titles are available in e-book and trade paperback. He has sold several short stories that have appeared in anthologies from various publishers including; WMG Publishing, Pocket Books, and St. Martins Press. He is a member of SF Canada and is past president of the Greater Vancouver Chapter of Romance Writers of America. He is also an alumni of the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writers Master Class taught by award winning author/editors, Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Feel free to contact him on Facebook, Twitter, or his website http:www.russcrossley.com.  He loves to hear from readers  

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Big Hairy Deal

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Russ Crossley

5t3rd Street Publishing

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From the files of the Woman from L.I.P.S.

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Russ Crossley

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Published by 53rd Street Publishing

Copyright 2015 Russ Crossley

All rights reserved

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Cover art © ThomFoto

Cover designed by R. Edgewood

Cover design and layout copyright © 2015 by 53rd Street Publishing

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53rd Street Publishing

Head office: Gibsons B.C. Canada

www.53rdsteetpublishing.com

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This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

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For once I wasn’t in the office when our future four-legged client bounded passed me snarling at screaming civilians. At the time I was concentrating on squeezing a grapefruit at Mo’s Fruitland on Bleeker Street, near the office.

My office is located on the third floor of a three-story, mold-covered brick walk-up above Bleeker Street in the city of Vancouver. And not the pretty-multi-cultural-Mecca-Vancouver by the sea you’re thinking of--the one on the west coast of Canada. My Vancouver is the one sucked into the dark, gloomy alternate reality where paranormal is normal.

Today is a day like most days. I’m squeezing fruit watching a crazed vendor swinging a broom in self-defense at a werewolf and I know I have to do