Killers Are Coming

A fledgling private detective tries to make ends meet when Opportunity seems to present itself. Then he learns the scope of the case. That $250 seemed like such an easy payday ...

The paint hasn’t dried on the door to Ken Sligo’s detective agency, and he’s contemplating closing shop. When Rudy Cohan offers him a cash-filled envelope in Baltimore’s Penn Station, Sligo crosses his fingers and hopes for the best. Is Rainy Dawn cheating on her producer boyfriend? Where does she get her extra spending money? The answers don’t align with the questions, and Sligo realizes his client is holding out, but not before a mob hit points the finger right at him …

Ken Sligo returns in The Killers Are Coming, a cat-and-mouse investigation across the backstages and back alleys of “The Block,” Baltimore’s red-light district. Forged by the criminals and police, to isolate criminal activity, it can’t contain the various mobsters and shake-down artists sticking their toes outside the perimeter.

Jack Bludis is the author of more than sixty novels and novellas and almost 700 short stories in many genres and subgenres. Several different pennames disguise his work. His favorite subgenre is the PI novel and story, for which he has been nominated for both the Shamus and the Anthony Awards. Few days go by when he does not learn something new about the craft of fiction or is reminded of something he has forgotten. He is a father and a grandfather and a lifetime resident of the Baltimore area as well as a fan of local teams. His favorite writers are Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Phillip Roth, James Lee Burke, and Stephen King. He believes the great fictional works of the Twentieth Century included The Sun Also Rises, The Sound and the Fury, Goodbye Columbus, and The Green Mile.