Long-awaited crime trilogy Reiker For Hire is now on the virtual shelves in anthology form. The novellas are about 42,500 words each and feature our favorite Victorian era detective, once more embroiled in schemes and murder. The series takes place in 1896 Germany.
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In Death Cruise, Reiker investigates murder and missing tourists on a luxury Rhine cruise. In Hotel of Horror, a derelict resort hotel holds heinous secrets. In Murder in the Cards, a fortune teller predicts murder and hires Reiker to stop it before it happens.
Reiker originates in the Lora Ley Fantasy Fiction series, in which he's the only human who knows about the Nyx. Now he's quit his dead end job at the police department and opened his own private detective office in the flourishing town of Mittelstadt.
Reiker For Hire trilogy of novellas takes place in June, July and August 1896. They read best in chronological order but you can read them any way you want. The area we know as Germany is then the German Empire, first unified in 1870-1 under Bismarck.
Having lived in Heidelberg and environs in the south of Germany for a while, I really enjoyed writing these novellas, revisiting old haunts virtually, and learning a lot more than I knew. Hope you enjoy them too.
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