L.T. VARGUS & TIM MCBAIN

The Good Life Crisis (A Novella)

Everyone has secrets. Even the dead.

A murder interrupts Special Agent Victor Loshak’s vacation in Santa Fe — a middle-aged man executed in his garage. The forensic details make it seem like a professional job, but the local police seem hell bent on pinning the killing on the dead man’s wife anyway. 

The story doesn’t quite add up.

Loshak gets swept up in the hunt for the truth, even if he’s still dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and sandals.

The agent digs through the seedy underworld of New Mexico, finds it populated with colorful characters who may or may not be playing it straight.

The details of the case grow increasingly bizarre. Everyone seems to have a different description of the dead man in the garage — his personality, his passions, his hopes and dreams all vary wildly depending on who is telling the story.

If Loshak can find out who the victim really was, he can solve the case. If not…

Books by LT Vargus & Tim McBain

The Violet Darger series

Her body is broken. Wrapped in plastic. Dumped on the side of the road. She is the first. There will be more. A pulse-pounding thriller series following Special Agent Violet Darger.

The Victor Loshak series

A new thriller series starring Special Agent Victor Loshak.

The Scattered and the Dead series

With 99.7% of the Earth’s population dead and gone, the few who remain struggle to survive in an empty world. The scattered. The leftovers. These are their stories.
A note about reading order: While we intended them to be read in numerical order (Book 0.5, Book 1.0, Book 1.5, etc.), you can technically start with either Book 1 or Book 0.5.

The Awake in the Dark series

A 27-year-old slacker has seizures during which he may or may not be astral projecting. What he learns might have the power to change the world. One second JEFF GROBNAGGER is standing in line at the grocery store, and the next he’s in an alley where a hooded figure strangles him to death.
So that sucks.

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