Loch is a blood soaked, neo-noir, detective thriller series. Set in a post war 2089, with a cyberpunk aesthetic set against a Gothic European backdrop. This science fiction crime thriller series delivers gripping plots, explosive action, gruesome murders, and a pitch black sense of humour.
UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FDXB5Q7C
US https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDXB5Q7C
LOCH: The Artist's Revival (book 1)
Veteran detective Nathan Loch is forced out of retirement when the grotesque signature of a long dead serial killer returns.
In the years he’d spent deep in a bottle, the city he fought a war to save had changed. Cybernetic augmentation had become commonplace, fashionable even. He hated the arm that never felt like his own.
The last thing he did as a cop was shoot The Artist dead. Now the killings are happening again. The macabre displays of flesh and Chrome have returned, spreading the same fear through the city.
Loch agreed to walk the crime scene because he knew, in his bones, The Artist was dead.
LOCH: Cold Bore (book 2)
Veteran detective Nathan Loch is brought in when a rogue sniper threatens the city.
Loch knew it would be bad when they interrupted his day drinking. Four dead from a single shot, fired at long range. He hadn’t seen this kind of carnage since the war. No patterns, no links between victims. Nothing to go on but the weapon used.
The entire city now sits in a sniper’s crosshairs, and Loch has to shut them down before his partner digs up things that should stay buried.
So this is my 2nd Loch book, and 4th overall. My other series, a modern crime/spy/political thriller series is about subverting the genre and tropes. Loch isn't. Loch is about indulging in all the grimy neon, hard boiled, bloody murders, stuff that I love. And it's funny, in a bleak, British way.
Book 1 sees Loch brought in when the signature of The Artist reappears, the case that ended his career as a detective. It was important for me to make it personal (can't really say more) but as I was writing the first one, I realised there was something Loch cared about more than his time as a detective. He cared about his men, volunteers that came to Eastern Europe to fight fascism while others talked. Loch turned them into the Brigade, a guerrilla force using tried and true tactics against a technologically superior enemy.
The Brigade won. The city they saved, rebuilt with plexiplass and permacrete, became the first city of the new age.
I could go on, but it's better if I don't.
Book 2 explores the legacy of the war on the city and the people who fought it. I got to expand on the history and the world, telling a bigger, more personal story with book 2, and it was so much fun to write!
The first 5 chapters are free to all.
It's a fast paced, fun read, with flawed characters and a black sense of humour.
Happy to answer any questions, spoilers permitting
I'm also aware that this sounds like Dirty Harry, which it is, but only on the surface. I also may or may not reference it.