NEW
RELEASE
Tequila Dirty
(The Hard Stuff Book 3)
(The Hard Stuff Book 3)
by Mickey
J. Corrigan
Tequila Dirty, the third book in Mickey J. Corrigan's The Hard Stuff series, has just been released. Also available: Whiskey Sour Noir, Vodka Warrior, and Mai Tai Guy (FREE short story).
Description
Something bad has happened (again) in Dusky Beach. And Rita Deltone, a
tough talking waitress from Lemon Run, Florida, is smack in the middle of it.
She knows all too well the dirt road she took to get down so low, but she takes
the long way around in the telling.
Liam Donell is the new detective in town. His partner is on vacation so
he has to handle all the dirty work. But this Rita chick is pretty cute. He's
not making the best decisions regarding the case. Soon enough, it turns ugly.
An unlikely couple, Rita and Liam try to make the best of a bad
situation. With hot, hilarious, and surprising results.
Excerpt
None of this would
have happened if I hadn’t met Ruben Drake in the Kettle of Fish. And none of
this would’ve happened if I wasn’t the kind of woman who drank too much at
dumpy dives. But I am and I did, so this is where I’m at. Here with you now,
all trussed up, flat on my back in this white on white room. With you setting
over there in that plastic chair, taking it all down in your little schoolboy
notebook. You with the cold hard glitter in your skeptical eyes. You with your
neat, clean hands. Those busy writing hands, tired now from your life of duty,
from all the hard luck stories you’ve summarized and dismissed in your goddamn
reports.
See, where I’m from
you learn at a young age not to talk about such things with strangers. And
where I’m from, everybody who ain’t family’s a stranger.
Right now, it’s
sunny back home in Lemon Run, the air still and hot. Light bounces off the
cement sidewalks and cinderblock houses, flooding the open spaces, piercing the
heart of the murky lake. The air smells like citrus, tangy and sharp. Dirt
blows around, gets in your eyes. No rain in sight, it’s the north Florida dry
season, but the fruit don’t care.
If I’d done what
everybody else done in Lemon Run, I’d be at the packing plant right now. I’d be
weighing squishy grapefruit and tossing bruisers into the juicer barrels. Or
I’d be stacking the lumpy skinned oranges and tangelos in the proper crates,
lugging them three at a time to the loading bay. I’d probably be laughing at
the crazy things everybody at the plant come up with while we’re all being
mindless together. In and out of the production line, sweating and swearing,
trying not to be too beat down by the heat of the day. I’d be listening to the
radio and singing along with the oldies station. Planning a beer run with one
of the guys. Thinking about the long dirt road of my life ahead.
Praise for the Book
"It’s official.
I am in love with Mickey J. Corrigan. Her writing style is all her own and I
cannot get enough of it. I love when she pulls me away from my life and shows
me a dirty and different world like the towns she has created in South Florida.
She gives me characters I shouldn’t like with personalities no one would find
endearing and makes me want to sit down and have a drink with them … There is
no sugarcoating in a MJC book. Life is tough, but life is still good." ~ For the Love of Books and Alcohol
"Mickey J.
Corrigan has done it again - with her third book in the Hard Stuff series. Tequila
Dirty brings the reader back to Dusky Beach with new characters Rita Deltone
and Detective Liam Donell. Mickey crafts a fast paced, hard to look away from
tale that casts readers into Rita's shoes from the opening sentence and leaves
their eyes bugging out with a whopper of twist no one sees coming. Brilliantly
written, Tequila Dirty, is short,
steamy, and satisfying. Do yourself a favor and add this book to your
collection today." ~ Author Angela
Hayes Blogspot, 5/5 stars
"A cute light
read about Rita, a waitress, and the bad decisions she makes to earn money ... a
short novella you can read during your lunch hour or in one evening. It has
sex, crime, romance and a REALLY surprising ending." ~ Harps Romance Book Reviews, 4.5/5 stars
About the Author
Originally from Boston, Mickey J. Corrigan lives and writes and gets into
trouble in South Florida, where men run guns and women run after them.
Mickey writes spicy fiction with a sense of humor. The women are tough
and can take care of themselves, thank you. But most find time for the
deserving lover in between creating dream protection software, learning the art
of professional grieving, morphing into gorillas, busting billion dollar hedge
funds, and other everyday activities.
Mickey's work has been compared to The
Matrix and The Twilight Zone, so
don't expect to sit back and coast on any of these wild fictional rides. And
watch out for the mind-blowing twists; they're around every corner.
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