Ray Turner's Blog

I'm thrilled to announce that my private eye mystery, A Hard Darkness , was recently selected as a FINALIST in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (First Novel category)!

Called "first-rate modern noir", this 5-star novel follows PI Nash Tobin as he investigates the bizarre death of a troubled teen. A hardboiled mystery with heart, A Hard Darkness is available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.

“A bizarre death, a string of murders, and a city on the brink of mob war. A resourceful but untested private eye seeks the key to them all. Can he survive long enough to find it?”

My new private eye novel A HARD DARKNESS was inspired by the stories and panache of the genre’s great practitioners, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and especially Robert B. Parker. Readers might notice a Twin Peaks vibe as well! One reviewer said: “Turner nails this classic private eye story… [PI] Nash Tobin exhibits a rare humanity toward the people whom he encounters in the course of his investigation.”

A Hard Darkness by Ray Turner is available at Amazon and is free to Kindle Unlimited subscribers.

Description: When private investigator Nash Tobin takes a job for the famous writer Preston Curtiz, it looks like a blackmail case. Then his client's student, Rudi Alsmith, is found dead, hanging from a conveyor belt at a local gravel yard. As Tobin delves into her death, he uncovers the bleak world she lived in, full of drugs and sex but devoid of hope. Other killings follow and Tobin himself becomes a suspect. Fired by his client and hunted by cops and thugs alike, Tobin must unravel the tangled mystery of A Hard Darkness fast. It will be his only chance to save himself and find justice for a tragically lost soul