Title: Dirty Job: Book 2 in the Dirty Deeds series
Publisher: Rogue Firebird Press
Release: July 5
Blurb: All Grade Pulaski wanted was a quiet life, a few low-profile murders to clean up after, and his hometown in the rear view as he headed back to LA. Simple, attainable goals. All he had to do was keep his nose down and everyone else’s hands clean…as far as the law was concerned…and he’d been able to show Sweeny his heels sooner rather than later.
Problem was that Grade’s ‘thing’ with local mob boss Clay Traynor—currently somewhere between a one-night stand and a bad idea—was a lot of things, but it wasn’t quiet or simple.
For example, Judge Charity Parker was the last person in Sweeny who needed to know Grade’s name. Yet here he was in her basement after midnight, cleaning up a mess that could derail a couple of political careers in one fell swoop. All because Clay owed Judge Parker a favor… or three.
Grade should have known better than to go along with it. Amateurs always made a job messy, and politicians didn’t have a grateful bone in their bodies. Now the only chance he had of seeing LA again meant he had to break his professional code of conduct.
He needed to get his client caught.
Hi everyone!
Thanks for letting me pop in to talk about my latest book, Dirty Job, which comes out on July 5. This is the second book in the Dirty Deeds trilogy, and I had a lot of fun with it! It’s available online – https://books2read.com/DirtyJob – and I hope you like it! There’s a third book in the works, after all!
If you want a ‘taste’ of the Dirty Deeds world, here are five facts you might not know about lead characters Clay Traynor and Grade Pulaski.
GRADE PULASKI
1: Grade hates the sight of blood; it makes him queasy. That would be a drawback in his line of work, but it only works if someone living is bleeding. Once the ‘donor’ is dead or out of the room, it doesn’t bother him. It’s one reason he believes in arriving on time, never early.
2: His real name is Thomas ‘Tommy’ Pulaski, Jr. Which he thinks is ridiculous since his Dad was neither dead nor gone when he was born, so they could have splashed on a new name. The bully who originally called the skinny little jerk ‘Grade’ to mock him was very disappointed when Grade took to the nickname instead. No one in LA even knows Grade isn’t his real name.
3: The weirdest job he ever worked in LA was another crime scene cleaner, who’d died mid-job and not been found for a week. The old man had triple booked himself, and Grade had to sort out three different murder victims/scenes to dispose of them. In addition to leaving his fellow cleaner in a state that made it look like natural causes. It still galls him he only got paid for one clean-up on that gig, but it cleared his debt with his first boss and let him go freelance.
4: When he was in LA, he used to date this guy who had a true-crime podcast. Grade broke up with him because the shop talk was too close to home. Also, he found it really difficult not to be able to tell him how crimes had actually been committed. He was never confident that his survival instinct had the edge over his need to show off.
5: This is one that even Grade won’t admit he knows. He could probably have seen out Covid in LA if he’d tightened his belt and taken a few jobs that wouldn’t usually have been worth his time. Except he was worried about his mom and his sister, so he convinced himself he had no other choice.
CLAY TRAYNOR
1: Clay was about two weeks from a dishonorable discharge when the jeep he was in got blown up. The ensuing mess meant that it ended up easier for the military to bounce him on medical grounds and cover up the rest. Ezra’s case was a bit more… complicated. But that’s for another book.
2: If Clay is honest, part of the reason he doesn’t engage properly with his therapist at the VA is that he’s not 100% convinced that being mentally healthy would be a benefit in his line of work. Disassociation and the ability to drink like a fish without it affecting you nearly as much as it should… kind of come in handy. The not-sleeping can be useful too. He gets a lot done.
3: Ally Adams, Ezra’s daughter, is his godchild. This was actually down to Ally’s mom, Ezra’s ex. She picked her sister because she knew she’d take care of Ally if anything happened to them, and Clay because she knew he’d take care of whoever had happened to them.
4: He owes Ezra his life—more than once—and until recently, he’d have said there was nothing he wouldn’t do for Ezra. It turns out that loyalties aren’t that easy to set in stone.
5: He has two full sleeves of tattoos and honestly doesn’t remember how that started. He got the first ink after being discharged, but still in Virginia, and then just went with the theme. It wasn’t planned; he just apparently has good taste in artists when he’s blackout drunk.
TA Moore –
TA Moore is a Northern Irish writer of romantic suspense, urban fantasy, and contemporary romance novels. A childhood in a rural, seaside town fostered in her a suspicious nature, a love of mystery, and a streak of black humor a mile wide. As her grandmother always said, ‘she’d laugh at a bad thing that one.’ Mind you, that was the pot calling the kettle black. TA Moore studied History, Irish mythology, and English at University, mostly because she has always loved a good story. She has worked as a journalist, a finance manager, and in the arts sectors before she finally gave in to a lifelong desire to write.
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