Pixie

Dev Haskell Mystery #15.5

by Mike Faricy

Pixie is a Novella in the highly entertaining and award winning Dev Haskell series. Dev meets a woman at an open house and they seem to hit it off perfectly. But, Dev's life being what it is nothing is as it it seems. He offers to help her out and then can't quite believe what happens next. A wonderful tale, if you're a Carl Hiaasen or Tim Dorsey fan you're going to love it.

147 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 29, 2016

About the author

I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, I still live there as well as in Dublin, Ireland. I've been a soldier, freelance journalist, tended bar, sold designer cakes, owned a painting and decorating company along with a number of other schemes and scams. If that doesn't offend you I also play bagpipes with the Brian Boru Irish Pipe Band. All my books stand alone, read them in whatever order you wish. They are filled with the sort of oddballs we are all curious about, but wisely, prefer to keep at a distance. None of my characters will be saving the world from terrorism, international banking conspiracies or coups to take over the government. Rather, they inhabit a world just below the surface of polite society, characters with one foot on either side of the law. The circumstances they find themselves in are usually due to bad decisions, but bad decisions lead to interesting stories. They serve not so much as an example but as a warning to us all. Thanks for taking the time, happy reading.

Reviews

[C.A. Knutsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fast-moving fun story

Dev falls for something that eventually gets him into a lot of trouble. It's fun to watch how it unfolds. Good ending.

[Dee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dev meets an attractive, intelligent woman at a party and things are really going well, or so Dev things. I knew it was to good to be true, and I was right. Dev is normally blindsided by a pretty woman, but this one uses him. You see it coming, but Dev never does, and the next thing he knows his face shows up on TV as the prime suspect in the murder of a nephew of a really bad guy, who now wants Dev dead. The police haul him in for a little sit down and for the first time in several books, he does get himself kicked around and stomped on. I'm surprised the guy doesn't have brain damage by now. But it's another entertaining installment in the trials and travails of DEV Haskell, P.I.