The Hunger Angels by Jason Miller (
SYKM) is a short story at the #1.5 mark in his Slim in Little Egypt mystery/crime thriller series starring the eponymous private investigator in southern Illinois' coal country region, this installment setting him up against a biker gang who've mysteriously taken over a house where the occupants a client of his was expecting to see have vanished, free courtesy of publisher HarperCollins' uncollinated Harper imprint.
This is being made free to promote the new release of the 2nd in series which is released today, and is supposed to bridge the gap between novels.
Currently free @
B&N,
Amazon &
Kobo &
iTunes &
Google Play &
eBooks.com (all available to Canadians), and can be added to your library @
BookShout (online reading & in-app download).
Apparently, this is not available across the pond, as the author does not have an e-book publisher in the UK.
Description
On a rainy night in Little Egypt, Jeep Mabry shows up on Slim’s doorstep with an old mining colleague to interrupt Slim and Anci’s Scrabble game, bringing more trouble than just misspelled words. Snake Dornan, a nickname he earned with particularly slippery schemes, bought up a few nearby houses in foreclosure, and rented one to Lizzie and Tony Meeks, by appearances a nice, young married couple. However, when he visits the house, the windows are broken, the yard is full of bikes and bikers, and there’s a telling smell of rotten eggs in the air. In order to evict them from his house, Snake needs Slim and Jeep’s help. All they need to do is deliver a letter of intent and a copy of the original lease to a group of heavily armed, meth running bikers. Should be easy, right?
This Slim in Little Egypt short story bridges the gap between Down Don’t Bother Me and Red Dog, and also includes an excerpt from Red Dog.