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SOUTHERN FRIED STORIES
The Jake Eliam
ChickenBone Mystery Series
PERCY BLUE P.I.
A Southern DirtDigger Mystery Series
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A NEW SOUTHERN
FRIED SERIES
SOUTHERN FRIED STORIES THAT GO DOWN AS SMOOTH AS A BIG SACK OF BOILED PEANUTS.
THE Jake Eliam ChickenBone Mystery Series
Grab A Cold Brew & Laugh Out Loud With Jake Eliam & His Oddball Cast of Characters From ChickenBone As They Stumble Into Misadventures Throughout The Backroads of Georgia.
Meet Jake Eliam. He spent a lifetime in baseball, until a chance turn that led him into the Atlanta neighborhood known as ChickenBone, where he ended
up a part-time private investigator.
A top big league prospect is killed in a car accident, But was it an accident or murder? To uncover the truth, Jake faces off against a bible quoting corrupt ex-congressman, two rednecks called Tater and Booger and comes within seconds of dodging death in search of the truth.
Catfish hires Jake to help an old college frat brother trace down a missing guitar player from the guy’s One Hit Wonder band. Problem is he’s been missing for twenty years. Jake’s search ends up with him living on a snake farm in South Georgia with a guy called Sweet Thang who speaks in rhymes and runs a mobile bait business. Secrets come crawling out like copperheads and Jake thinks he might become a One Hit Wonder himself.
Catfish hires Jake for an easy job at one of his favorite places, a Georgia-Alabama football game in Athens. All Jake has to do is play bodyguard to Cissy, a rude, arrogant Network sideline reporter who is being stalked. The easy pay day turns into a blocked punt and Jake ends up needing the help of Catfish’s teammate Dumptruck and a mysterious explosive expert called BobbyTrap to run one last play on fourth down or end up losing more than a game.
Sammy ‘Shoestring’ Stubbs wasn’t a very good Major League ballplayer, but he was a Hall of Fame thief. Shoestring stole all the baseball memorabilia from teammates he could. Now, years later Jake is hired by an old scout to uncover the treasure where Stubbs buried it. Diving into a mysterious and dangerous shoals, Jake has to fight off a Texas Bounty Hunter, A greedy strip club owner and deal with a 150 year old ghost to try and dig up the mystery
Catfish invested big cash in a Summer Baseball team, The Tully City TaterHeads and signs up Jake as manager. The man running the team, cares more about
pig races, ticket taking monkeys than baseball. During an 80’s night, a famous car from a TV show is stolen and ALL will go broke if Jake can’t track it down. He turns to a slick guy named Sugar to put together a team, including BoDilly, Polecat and RoadKill to try one last suicide squeeze to track down the car and save the day.
Bobby Springs was a rising music star in the 1960’s. On the verge of stardom,
he took his own Life, a headfirst dive off a water tower near a legendary recording studio deep in the swamps of Georgia. Decades later, an old sax man, who believes it was murder, hires Jake to find the truth. Digging up bones, they tangle with the most powerful man in South Georgia, plusa swamp filled with angry gators, and Jake is not sure which one is the most dangerous.
Percy Dean Boone was as stubborn and mean as the Texas bulls he wrangled as a kid. In the Minors, he threw a blazing fastball, but his bad temper, fights, drinking and way too many flat fastballs sent him home. Out of the blue he shows up wanting Jake to help find his missing daughter. The search takes the gang to a haunted cabin deep in the mountains where it takes explosives, snakes and a couple of drunken timber men to wrangle Percy Dean before his flat fastball flattens him.
Catfish and the gang head to Catfish’s hometown to help his goddaughter save her long time family farm from a greedy developer. Joining up with a guitar picking farmhand, a mysterious, philosophical pig farmer, and Kitten, the former prom queen, they sat out to battle a powerful man Catfish has hated since high school. As things heat up, Catfish finds out it is not always easy to go home again.
COMING SOON
Introducing A NEW Southern Fried Story SERIES
PERCY BLUE P.I.
A Southern DirtDigger Mystery
Join Percy Blue, A DirtDigger of a Private Investigator As HeTurns His Old Newspaper Skills Into A New Career In Athens, Georgia, Home of The Georgia Bulldogs and Now Home of A Broke But One Deep Digging P.I.