Serial Doesn't Start with a C

Jasper, Street-Fighter, and Me #3

by Richard Nurse

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Meet the most unique detective team today. Jasper, Street-Fighter, and Me.

A border collie, Sgt. Jasper, USMC Ret; a streetwise tomcat, Street-Fighter; and Me a forever 39 year-old Maggie McKenzie, USMC Ret. Together, we take on almost any case.


Knowing that she is the perfect match to the serial killers targets, Maggie discovers, while searching for missing twin sisters, not only who the killer is, but that she just might be the next target. When Jasper and Street-Fighter find the missing girls, only Maggie has a route to get the girls to safety. The problem is she will have to leave the rest of the team behind, even though one is wounded, not an easy job for a former Marine.

Now professionally edited, to correct errors discovered in the original edition.

134 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 2, 2016

About the author

ABOUT_THE_AUTHOR

A Vietnam Era Veteran, my desire to write was born in my late teens. Inspired and encouraged by professionals when I spent a year as the Office Boy for the President and other Executives of Gannett News. My higher education was interrupted by a six-year stint in the Navy, where I developed my ability to spin a tale, coached by some of the best story tellers around, and where the best stories usually began with “Now this ain’t no B…S…”.

Married to the same wonderful woman for almost 50 years now, I somehow managed to earn three degrees by working and going to college at night, while we raised our daughter. This daughter kept my creative juices flowing, as she required me to come up with a new story every night about one of her stuffed animals. I began to write fiction, along with poetry, as a way to battle boredom at work, as well as to fill the time spent alone, as it was my wife’s turn to complete her dream and become an Art Historian. With our daughter now married, and living her dream as an Elementary School Teacher, wife, and mother of the greatest granddaughter in the world, it was time for me to re-kindle my dream. I retired at the earliest age that I could and began to write seriously. My first published work was a feature article for a collecting magazine, titled “Addicted to Glass”.

Not being a person who tolerates long waits for answers well, I read up on the world of self-publishing. I decided to give it a go. I published works under a pen name at first, and then more recently under my own name. To date, between the two, I have over thirty works of fiction ranging from short stories to novels, along with three collections of poetry, and four stand-alone poems published.

Reviews

[Lisa Karlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Episode 3 of the Jasper, Street-Fighter and Me series is titled “Serial Doesn’t Start with a C.” This episode includes a preface that refreshes the reader’s memory about the protagonist of the series, Private Investigator Maggie McKenzie, and her “colleagues,” her mutt Jasper and her alley cat named Street Fighter. This time it’s another serial rapist/murder case. Maggie’s boyfriend Detective Jim Anderson is back as well. A perpetrator dubbed the “Tri-State Fruitloop” is thought to be responsible for multiple rapes and murders; hence Maggie’s first thought that “Serial Doesn’t Start with a C.” This newest case involves Maddy and Patty, 28-year-old identical twins, who seem to have “disappeared off the face of the earth.” Their mother, Mrs. Carson, contacts Maggie for assistance in locating them after the police aren’t interested in finding the twins because there is no evidence of a crime having taken place. The reader begins to wonder if it’s the Tri-State Fruitloop who might have something to do with their disappearance. Or is it “strange bird” Detective Mullcaney, who previously worked in six different departments, that is involved or has information he’s not disclosing? What clues lie in the twins’ bedroom, which is not a room shared by two sisters, but “a room shared by a loving couple”? When Maggie goes on a run, she suspects she’s being followed, which adds to the mystery of what’s going on? Maggie then delves into the search for the missing twins, including financial and social media accounts, and finds nothing to suggest the twins have disappeared on their own. Are there two more bodies out there? Has the Tri-State Fruitloop struck again? Keep reading this series to find out if Maggie and Jim are able to apprehend the person/people responsible (I don’t want to give away the story line). Series author Richard Nurse has kept up the momentum and suspense in his series with “Serial Doesn’t Start with a C.” It’s another enjoyable, fast-paced read. I received a free copy of the book in exchange for a non-reciprocal honest review.

[Richard Nurse · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Serial Rapist & Murder discovered in "A Diamond in the Ruff" rear's his ugly head again. Maggie no more than put her regular business greeting on her phone, after taking a couple of months off, just to relax and recover, from the wild and exciting ending to the A Diamond in a Ruff, when her phone rings. She is not even sure she want to go back to work yet, but after listening to the very distraught mother on the other end of the line, she agrees to meet with her. Still not sure if she wants to take on the case of finding the missing twenty-eight-year-old twins, Maggies decision is made for her, when she looks at a photo of the twins. It is almost like she is looking at a double exposure of herself.

A fast paced, story that once again pits Maggie, and her partners, Jasper, and Street-Fighter, up against a cunning and deranged Serial Murder, while, at the same time Maggie and Jim's life-long friendship is evolving into something more than just being friends.

As the author of this book and the Jasper, Street-Fighter and Me series, I must say that I am having a wonderful time writing this series. The characters are once again taking control of the story, and my writing of it is almost the equivalent of a reader reading the story. So often, like the reader, I don't know what is going to happen next, until I turn the page.