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    Stoney Hawk: Stoney Hawk Novella series, #1
    Stoney Hawk: Stoney Hawk Novella series, #1
    Stoney Hawk: Stoney Hawk Novella series, #1
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    Stoney Hawk: Stoney Hawk Novella series, #1

    By Bob Moats

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    She was named after a Barbra Streisand song and grew up in an area of Detroit where one would have to fight to survive the streets. Stoney trained to be tough, and then became a private eye. She stood up for abused women and then one called her with a problem, she answered. The woman was being terrorized by an ex-boyfriend and asked if Stoney could help get rid of the man. Stoney agreed and with the help of her friend, Avery, a big, black, former enforcer they set out to protect the woman. A late night incident gave Stoney the chance to have the man arrested, but he would be out before long. Stoney looked into the man’s past and found out he may have murdered his wife. Stoney calls on an FBI acquaintance for help and he sends an agent out who was the lead on the original case of the missing wife. More trouble brews when friends of the abusive man show up to threaten Stoney and her client. More questions and answers lead Stoney and the agent to finding out where the missing wife is located. This is the first novella in the series about the female private eye, Stoney Hawk

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBob Moats
    Release dateApr 6, 2015
    ISBN9781507014592
    Stoney Hawk: Stoney Hawk Novella series, #1
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    Bob Moats

    Detroit area resident, Bob Moats, has been writing short stories and plays for as long as he can remember. He has lost most of his original stories, typed or handwritten, in the numerous moves he has made from his hometown of Fraser, Michigan to Northern Michigan, to Las Vegas and back to Fraser, where he now lives. Moats became one of the causalities of unemployment a year ago, and had time on his hands to finally pursue a life long dream of writing a full blown crime novel. Thus was born the first book, "Classmate Murders".What followed was a series of seven books starting with "The Classmate Murders" which introduces the main character, Jim Richards, who has to admit he has become a senior citizen, reluctantly. Richards, one day, receives an email from a childhood sweetheart asking for his help, but by the time he reaches her, she has been murdered. His life turns around and he is pulled into numerous murders of women from his high school who he hasn't seen in forty years. Along with a friend of his, Buck, a big, mustached biker, they go off to track down the killer before he can get to one former classmate, Penny Wickens, a TV talk show host who Jim has just fallen for while protecting her. The killer is also murdering the women right out from under police protection, driving homicide detective Will Trapper crazy, and he slowly depends on Jim to help. There's humor, suspense, wild chases across suburban Detroit with cops, classic cars and motorcycle clubs; murder, mayhem, a good amount of romance and a twist ending.Jim and his crime fighters, continue in the other books, traveling to Las Vegas twice, back to Detroit and out to New York to solve murders involving dominatrix; mistresses; Bridezillas; magic and strip clubs.Book titles: Classmate Murders; Vegas Showgirl Murders; Dominatrix Murders; Mistress Murders; Bridezilla Murders; Magic Murders; Strip Club Murders and Made-for-TV Murders.

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      Stoney Hawk - Bob Moats

      Copyright © 2015 by Bob Moats.

      All rights are reserved.

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      This is a work of pure fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      P.O. Box 524, Fraser MI 48026-0524

      Website: http://murdernovels.com

      Cover by Bob Moats

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      Extra special thanks to:

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      Special thanks to Susan Haughton, who edited this book and for her great suggestions.

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      Thanks to the beta readers Cindy Valstad, Al Norris, Amy Morningstar. Thanks to Russ Holthaus for his experience in law enforcement for checking police procedures.

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      Thank you to all the people who purchased this book. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it for my faithful readers.

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      The Jim Richards Family of Readers is listed in the back of the book.

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      'Stoney End' from The Essential Barbra Streisand 1971

      Songwriter, Laura Nyro

      Lyrics Published by © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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      Chapter 1

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      "I was born from love and my poor mother worked the mines

      I was raised on the good book Jesus

      Till I read between the lines

      Now I don't believe I want to see the morning."

      The Barbra Streisand song, "Stoney End" played on the car radio and Stoney thought of her mother. She never worked the mines, but her job working in a laundry of a hotel was just as bad. Stoney was born from a quickie union between a man and her mother, and in 1972, she was born. Her father left before he even knew about her mother's pregnancy and all these years Stoney wondered who he was. Her mother refused to say, or she didn't know, so Stoney pretended that he was some big name rock star her mother had gotten together with in the band's bus after his show.

      Her mother loved this song so when she was born, she became Stoney. She was glad her favorite song wasn't 'Jeremiah was a Bullfrog.' Her mother died two years ago and even on her deathbed refused to tell her who her father was. She reached over and spun the volume dial to ear-bleeding loud and sang along.

      She thought the biggest reason she got into private investigating was because she wanted to solve the mystery of who her old man was. Her real name was Stoney Iskowitz, but luckily her mother married and she took his last name, Hawk. She liked the sound of Stoney Hawk, it sounded tough and dangerous, which is what she trained herself to be. She grew up in a bad area of Detroit, a place where you fought almost every day to survive. As a girl growing up there, she fought the best of the punks who inhabited the neighborhood and after a while they left her alone.

      After high school, having a reputation for being the bad girl, she joined the Army. She survived basic training and took the taunts and threats from the other maggots. After basic she was assigned a desk job in the headquarters for the Army Special Forces. She would watch the men training and made a few friends who took her in and taught her their expertise in combat and black ops. She left the Army when her hitch ended and went on a quest to find her father.

      She found out from an old P.I. in Detroit that she could get more information by having a license to investigate. So she went to a local community college, took the classes and eventually got her license. She was now officially a private investigator.

      She went to work for a while on her own and still had no luck finding anything about her father. Her mother never kept records or a diary about her life. The father's name part of her birth certificate was left blank, so was her heart. She finally gave up and concentrated on her new profession. She took numerous classes in martial arts and Krav Maga. She would hit the gym and work out, being hit on by a number of pumped up numbskulls. She never married, although she had one close brush with a cop named Doyle. They lasted for about a half year, but he wasn't interested in marriage. He lost his wife in a car accident, and couldn't let go of her memory. Stoney left him and struck out to work her profession and got busy fairly fast.

      She drove out to Eastpointe to where she was to meet with a new client. The woman was having problems with her ex-boyfriend and wanted him out of her life. Stoney was doing protection occasionally and equalizing problem cases. She usually could convince a trouble making ex-spouse or misguided boyfriend to back off.

      She drove into the parking lot of the Cloverleaf Restaurant at Gratiot and Nine Mile Road. She didn't know what the woman looked like but Stoney had described herself. Curly blond hair down to her waist and tall. She always wore a spandex jumpsuit, it was easy to move in when she had to move fast. She may have looked like a hooker most of the time, but it was useful the rest of the time.

      Stoney entered the place and saw a woman alone in a

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