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Dirty Deeds #1
Dirty Work
Crime Scene Cleaner [kraɪm siːnˈkliːnə] - Cleans up crime scenes…before the cops know there is one.
People always say ‘you can’t go home again’. It turns out that doesn’t count as a guarantee…especially not during a global pandemic.
After the jobs in LA started to dry up, crime scene cleaner Grade Pulaski was forced to pack up and move home. He loves his family, but the last thing he ever wanted was to face the ghosts he’d left back in Sweeny, Kentucky.
Also, the place just sucks.
He certainly isn’t going to stay any longer than necessary. The plan is to save up enough money to move back to LA and give his business a kick-start. The problem is that, as previously mentioned, Sweeny’s a hole and the locals are anything but professional.
Now a body has gone missing, Grade’s reputation is being held hostage, and people keep asking whether his Dad really did run off with 100 grand of meth in the back of Dodge. Plus, even though you shouldn’t sleep with your employers, crime lord Clay Traynor is exactly the sort of bad idea that Grade can’t resist. Tattooed, bad news, and dangerous.
…oh, yeah. Grade’s job is to clean up the crime scene before the cops know someone’s dead. That’s why he needs to sort this out before he gets a bad review on dark net Yelp
People always say ‘you can’t go home again’. It turns out that doesn’t count as a guarantee…especially not during a global pandemic.
After the jobs in LA started to dry up, crime scene cleaner Grade Pulaski was forced to pack up and move home. He loves his family, but the last thing he ever wanted was to face the ghosts he’d left back in Sweeny, Kentucky.
Also, the place just sucks.
He certainly isn’t going to stay any longer than necessary. The plan is to save up enough money to move back to LA and give his business a kick-start. The problem is that, as previously mentioned, Sweeny’s a hole and the locals are anything but professional.
Now a body has gone missing, Grade’s reputation is being held hostage, and people keep asking whether his Dad really did run off with 100 grand of meth in the back of Dodge. Plus, even though you shouldn’t sleep with your employers, crime lord Clay Traynor is exactly the sort of bad idea that Grade can’t resist. Tattooed, bad news, and dangerous.
…oh, yeah. Grade’s job is to clean up the crime scene before the cops know someone’s dead. That’s why he needs to sort this out before he gets a bad review on dark net Yelp
182 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 4, 2022
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T.A. Moore
45 books392 followersTA Moore is a Northern Irish writer of romantic suspense, urban fantasy, and contemporary romance novels. A childhood in a rural, seaside town fostered in her a suspicious nature, a love of mystery, and a streak of black humour a mile wide. As her grandmother always said, ‘she’d laugh at a bad thing that one’, mind you, that was the pot calling the kettle black. TA Moore studied History, Irish mythology, English at University, mostly because she has always loved a good story. She has worked as a journalist, a finance manager, and in the arts sectors before she finally gave in to a lifelong desire to write.
Coffee, Doc Marten boots, and good friends are the essential things in life. Spiders, mayo, and heels are to be avoided.
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Coffee, Doc Marten boots, and good friends are the essential things in life. Spiders, mayo, and heels are to be avoided.
Website: www.nevertobetold.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TA.Moores
Twitter: @tammy_moore
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March 3, 2022The book took place during the current pandemic. Idk why the author deemed to include that as imho it didn’t make much different to overall story (other than backstory that the MC was forced to return home as his job dry up in LA). DIRTY WORK is a pretty gloomy tale with gloomy setting; told alternately from two rather shady character’s POVs. It’s more of an action flick with not-romance-really-but-the-start-of-it thrown in. Clay was a former SEAL turned partner/enforcer to a seedy bar, Grade was a brainiac crime scene cleaner. They exchanged wisecracks and barb words - something I recognized from Moore’s previous writings of her MCs and quick to act without thinking.
All in all, it’s a somewhat entertaining read. Not a pair of charming MCs perhaps and not wholly satisfying way to tied up loose-ends.
All in all, it’s a somewhat entertaining read. Not a pair of charming MCs perhaps and not wholly satisfying way to tied up loose-ends.
March 6, 2022
So good! I didn't want this to end. Such a cool concept and one I haven't read before. I just hope we don't have to wait long for the 2nd book.
January 23, 2023
The usual, but
badder, hotter, meaner. Crime,
sex, love; blah, blah, blah.
badder, hotter, meaner. Crime,
sex, love; blah, blah, blah.
March 14, 2022
Can't quite decide if I liked this book
If give 3 1/2 stars because I couldn't decide if I liked it enough for 4 stars - however I would probably read the next in the series. Grade seems like a quiet guy, goes in to clean up crime scenes and keeps his mouth shut. Clay is mouthy, thinks nothing of using violence and definitely has PTSD. They are an unlikely couple who end up working together trying to save their necks from a crime lord who has been double crossed. Interesting final scene in the story, it was this that made me think I'd read book 2 in the series.
If give 3 1/2 stars because I couldn't decide if I liked it enough for 4 stars - however I would probably read the next in the series. Grade seems like a quiet guy, goes in to clean up crime scenes and keeps his mouth shut. Clay is mouthy, thinks nothing of using violence and definitely has PTSD. They are an unlikely couple who end up working together trying to save their necks from a crime lord who has been double crossed. Interesting final scene in the story, it was this that made me think I'd read book 2 in the series.
March 4, 2022
Sometimes I struggle with the morally grey characters. However, I did like Grade and Clay and am looking forward to the rest of their story. Ms Moore has quite the way with visualizing violent and gory scenes that keeps everything gritty. Nobody in this story is really free of criminal dealings.
Also, that epilogue was brutal!
Also, that epilogue was brutal!
March 15, 2022
Originally published at Reading Reality
“It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it,” or so the old saying goes. And then there’s the whole idea of “dirty work” which is not the same thing at all. Although when we first meet crime scene cleaner Grade Pulaski, the job he has to do is both. Cleaning a public washroom that hasn’t been cleaned since the turn of the century – possibly since the turn of the 19th into the 20th – is just a dirty job that someone really ought to have been doing all along. Cleaning up the place so thoroughly that no evidence of the headshot corpse currently “littering” the place remains to be found – ever – is dirty work all the way around.
But that clandestine clean-up job is only the beginning of Grade’s misadventures with the “Catfish Mafia” that runs everything dirty and/or operating under the table in Sweeny – and it seems like that whole region of Kentucky.
Grade’s stuck in the middle – every bit as much as he’s stuck back in Sweeny – when his truck, with the evidence sloshing around in a barrel in the back gets carjacked. (Truckjacked?)
The job he thought was going to add to his “getting out of Sweeny” fund instead starts adding to his “reasons he wanted to leave yesterday.” Along with one long, tall, dangerous reason to stay.
Escape Rating B: I don’t think I was expecting a “Mafia romance” to be set among the tiny towns of Kentucky. So I have to admit that threw me for a bit. As did the fairly graphic description of just what Grade has to go through to clean up the mess that body made – in a place that surely didn’t need to be any messier.
But once the suspense part of this romantic suspense story kicks into gear – with the truckjacking – the need to figure out just what the hell is going on sets its hooks deep. Into Grade because he has to solve it to get out of this mess alive – and into the reader because it’s just such a damn convoluted puzzle.
On top of that – sometimes literally – there’s the hard, slightly mean and a bit edgy relationship that springs up between Grade and Clay Traynor. Clay seems to be the enforcer for the local branch of that Catfish Mafia, and its his job to keep an eye on Grade until someone decides whether the cleaner is in this mess up to his neck – or whether he’s going to end up in one of his own cleaning barrels. That Clay does most of Grade-minding from up close and personal is a surprise to pretty much everyone. Especially the two of them.
But it’s that suspense plot that kept this reader turning pages. Because the situation that seemed fairly simple at the beginning is absolutely anything but by the dirty, twisty end.
“It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it,” or so the old saying goes. And then there’s the whole idea of “dirty work” which is not the same thing at all. Although when we first meet crime scene cleaner Grade Pulaski, the job he has to do is both. Cleaning a public washroom that hasn’t been cleaned since the turn of the century – possibly since the turn of the 19th into the 20th – is just a dirty job that someone really ought to have been doing all along. Cleaning up the place so thoroughly that no evidence of the headshot corpse currently “littering” the place remains to be found – ever – is dirty work all the way around.
But that clandestine clean-up job is only the beginning of Grade’s misadventures with the “Catfish Mafia” that runs everything dirty and/or operating under the table in Sweeny – and it seems like that whole region of Kentucky.
Grade’s stuck in the middle – every bit as much as he’s stuck back in Sweeny – when his truck, with the evidence sloshing around in a barrel in the back gets carjacked. (Truckjacked?)
The job he thought was going to add to his “getting out of Sweeny” fund instead starts adding to his “reasons he wanted to leave yesterday.” Along with one long, tall, dangerous reason to stay.
Escape Rating B: I don’t think I was expecting a “Mafia romance” to be set among the tiny towns of Kentucky. So I have to admit that threw me for a bit. As did the fairly graphic description of just what Grade has to go through to clean up the mess that body made – in a place that surely didn’t need to be any messier.
But once the suspense part of this romantic suspense story kicks into gear – with the truckjacking – the need to figure out just what the hell is going on sets its hooks deep. Into Grade because he has to solve it to get out of this mess alive – and into the reader because it’s just such a damn convoluted puzzle.
On top of that – sometimes literally – there’s the hard, slightly mean and a bit edgy relationship that springs up between Grade and Clay Traynor. Clay seems to be the enforcer for the local branch of that Catfish Mafia, and its his job to keep an eye on Grade until someone decides whether the cleaner is in this mess up to his neck – or whether he’s going to end up in one of his own cleaning barrels. That Clay does most of Grade-minding from up close and personal is a surprise to pretty much everyone. Especially the two of them.
But it’s that suspense plot that kept this reader turning pages. Because the situation that seemed fairly simple at the beginning is absolutely anything but by the dirty, twisty end.
October 8, 2023
I haven’t read a story as good as Dirty Work in a long time. I can safely say it probably isn’t for everyone, but it ticks all my personal boxes: amoral characters, dark humor, witty banter, understated barely there but clearly there romance and plenty of action. 26-year-old Grade Pulaski is a crime scene cleaner. Not the kind that works with law enforcement; the kind that works with the criminal element. Not the kind that bags and tags; the kind the cuts and dissolves and makes go away. He was making a pretty good living in LA; but then the pandemic hit, and apparently it impacted the west coast crime rate. He had to hightail it back to his claustrophobic, backwoods hometown of Sweeny, Kentucky and he’s been biding his time with the locals until he can afford to get back to LA.
What should have been a simple clean for a couple of career criminals goes sideways, and he finds himself in the thick of things with his employers Ezra and Clay and the Catfish Mafia. The situation for Grade is probably made more tolerable by the fact that he has “always had bad taste for hot, dangerous dudes” and 35-year-old tattooed former Navy Seal Clay Traynor the muscle to Ezra’s brains, is looking pretty damn good even if he may want to hand Grade over as a sacrificial lamb.
Both Grade and Clay are great characters. Neither are bad men per se; they just live in a world that sometimes requires them to do bad things. Grade considers himself a “high strung nerd”. He got his nickname because he skipped 2 grades in elementary school. He’s smart, conscientious, according to his sister a “a very law-abiding criminal”; and maybe because of his age and his “squeaky clean frat boy look” easy to underestimate. “For a second, something hard flickered through Grade’s pretty eyes. It was there and gone in a flash, so quickly that Clay almost missed it. Most people probably did, but there was something nasty under all that precision and practicality.” Clay is older and, on the surface, harder, but in many ways more vulnerable. His years in the military have left him with a raging case of PTSD that seems impervious to monthly VA therapy appointments and meds when he remembers to take them, a questionable death wish and a set of scars he insists he isn’t self-conscious about. “I’m a lot of things,” Clay said. “Insecure ain’t one of them.” That was a lie. Grade had seen the tension on Clay when he’d flashed his scars and the way he’d relaxed when Grade hadn’t flinched.”
Neither of them do relationships. Hell neither of them do emotions. And yet there is a palpable connection between them.
“Do you trust me?”
“I… I met you yesterday.”
“Do you trust me?”
“You were standing over a corpse taking a piss.”
Clay grinned and pulled Grade’s head down until their foreheads touched. “And you trust me.”
What should have been a simple clean for a couple of career criminals goes sideways, and he finds himself in the thick of things with his employers Ezra and Clay and the Catfish Mafia. The situation for Grade is probably made more tolerable by the fact that he has “always had bad taste for hot, dangerous dudes” and 35-year-old tattooed former Navy Seal Clay Traynor the muscle to Ezra’s brains, is looking pretty damn good even if he may want to hand Grade over as a sacrificial lamb.
Both Grade and Clay are great characters. Neither are bad men per se; they just live in a world that sometimes requires them to do bad things. Grade considers himself a “high strung nerd”. He got his nickname because he skipped 2 grades in elementary school. He’s smart, conscientious, according to his sister a “a very law-abiding criminal”; and maybe because of his age and his “squeaky clean frat boy look” easy to underestimate. “For a second, something hard flickered through Grade’s pretty eyes. It was there and gone in a flash, so quickly that Clay almost missed it. Most people probably did, but there was something nasty under all that precision and practicality.” Clay is older and, on the surface, harder, but in many ways more vulnerable. His years in the military have left him with a raging case of PTSD that seems impervious to monthly VA therapy appointments and meds when he remembers to take them, a questionable death wish and a set of scars he insists he isn’t self-conscious about. “I’m a lot of things,” Clay said. “Insecure ain’t one of them.” That was a lie. Grade had seen the tension on Clay when he’d flashed his scars and the way he’d relaxed when Grade hadn’t flinched.”
Neither of them do relationships. Hell neither of them do emotions. And yet there is a palpable connection between them.
“Do you trust me?”
“I… I met you yesterday.”
“Do you trust me?”
“You were standing over a corpse taking a piss.”
Clay grinned and pulled Grade’s head down until their foreheads touched. “And you trust me.”
March 4, 2022
“Dirty Work” is the start of a new series “Dirty Deeds” by TA Moore. Come meet Grade Pulaski and Clay Traynor, who meet under the most chaotic circumstances.
Grade Pulaski is intelligent and he’s going to earn money the best way he knows how to get back to LA.
Crime lords, Adam Ezra and Clay Traynor own The Slap. They have a big problem! In the men’s room of The Slap lies Buchanan a dead bagman, who works for Fisher the head of the Catfish Mafia. Grade takes the job to “cleanup” and it get’s him into all kinds of trouble.
When Grades van is hijacked with the body, he winds up with a whole lotta “tattooed, bad news, dangerous” Clay Traynor. Besides being a crime lord Clay is an ex-military Seal and has moments of PTSD.
Just who is the guilty party? What kind of trouble will follow them? All Grade knows he needs to prove his innocence.
“Dirty Work” is a quick read, fast paced, gritty, exciting, packed with action and danger. It’s loaded with that special snark, banter and steamy moments between Grade and Clay, that TA Moore brings to her stories. Even though the story is written in current times, it takes the readers to a small fictitious town where anything can happen. It’s also a suspenseful “who-dun-it” mystery.
I’m not going to say too much about Grade, as the blurb covers what his plans are for himself. But I like both Grade and Clay and the connection that they make. The age difference between them makes the storyline even more interesting. They both seem to be able read into each others emotions. Is there also a secret about Grades father Tommy Pulaski?
It’s loaded with secondary characters: Grades sister Dory and nephew Cody; Harry, who seems to be a really good friend to Clay; Adam Ezra and Deputy Jones. There’s also the not to bright bad guys: Arlo, TJ, Hadley, Betsy and Nesmith the mouthpiece for Fisher.
TA Moore does not disappoint! With many of her novels, her imagination and creativeness is off the hook. I don’t know how she does it! One thing I do know, even with the danger, grit and gore it’s going to be a fun ride. I am so excited for the next book. With her wild imagination and characters I have no idea what she has planned next, but it’s bound to be great!
Grade Pulaski is intelligent and he’s going to earn money the best way he knows how to get back to LA.
Crime lords, Adam Ezra and Clay Traynor own The Slap. They have a big problem! In the men’s room of The Slap lies Buchanan a dead bagman, who works for Fisher the head of the Catfish Mafia. Grade takes the job to “cleanup” and it get’s him into all kinds of trouble.
When Grades van is hijacked with the body, he winds up with a whole lotta “tattooed, bad news, dangerous” Clay Traynor. Besides being a crime lord Clay is an ex-military Seal and has moments of PTSD.
Just who is the guilty party? What kind of trouble will follow them? All Grade knows he needs to prove his innocence.
“Dirty Work” is a quick read, fast paced, gritty, exciting, packed with action and danger. It’s loaded with that special snark, banter and steamy moments between Grade and Clay, that TA Moore brings to her stories. Even though the story is written in current times, it takes the readers to a small fictitious town where anything can happen. It’s also a suspenseful “who-dun-it” mystery.
I’m not going to say too much about Grade, as the blurb covers what his plans are for himself. But I like both Grade and Clay and the connection that they make. The age difference between them makes the storyline even more interesting. They both seem to be able read into each others emotions. Is there also a secret about Grades father Tommy Pulaski?
It’s loaded with secondary characters: Grades sister Dory and nephew Cody; Harry, who seems to be a really good friend to Clay; Adam Ezra and Deputy Jones. There’s also the not to bright bad guys: Arlo, TJ, Hadley, Betsy and Nesmith the mouthpiece for Fisher.
TA Moore does not disappoint! With many of her novels, her imagination and creativeness is off the hook. I don’t know how she does it! One thing I do know, even with the danger, grit and gore it’s going to be a fun ride. I am so excited for the next book. With her wild imagination and characters I have no idea what she has planned next, but it’s bound to be great!
March 3, 2022
This author's books are highly addictive - gritty, hot, and with enough fantastic one-liners and dry humor that you'll be cackling aloud.
Grade is - well, Grade cleans up crime scenes before the cops can get wind. He's not cheap, but he's efficient, and his reputation is well-earned.
The challenge? Someone stole his body - er, the body he's transporting, and he has to get it back...unfortunately with an annoying babysitter from his shady employer dogging every step.
One of the best parts of this book is how the author didn't shy away from using the pandemic as a central part of this story. It seems a lot of authors still haven't utilized this as an important (or any!) element in their works so far, but Moore manages to not only use it as a reason Grade was forced to return to his hometown, but it looms like a specter over the entire work, an eerie, near post-apocalyptic feel that serves to drive up the tension, at least for me.
I am eager for the next book, and you will definitely be hooked too!
Grade is - well, Grade cleans up crime scenes before the cops can get wind. He's not cheap, but he's efficient, and his reputation is well-earned.
The challenge? Someone stole his body - er, the body he's transporting, and he has to get it back...unfortunately with an annoying babysitter from his shady employer dogging every step.
One of the best parts of this book is how the author didn't shy away from using the pandemic as a central part of this story. It seems a lot of authors still haven't utilized this as an important (or any!) element in their works so far, but Moore manages to not only use it as a reason Grade was forced to return to his hometown, but it looms like a specter over the entire work, an eerie, near post-apocalyptic feel that serves to drive up the tension, at least for me.
I am eager for the next book, and you will definitely be hooked too!
March 4, 2022
I love how this author's mind works. She's the master of setting up the mood. Whit little almost random details here and there, she sets up the mood and creates that realistic and almost palpable world that I'm sucked in over and over again no matter what she writes.
This book was no exception although you need to set your expectations low on romance because mystery/action takes the front stage in this one. There's a lot of sizzling chemistry between MC's but it's a HFN ending at best, if we can even call it that. One mystery is resolved but in the relationship and character development department there's so much more to say, not to mention the hints of the past that are just beginning to be revealed. I probably shouldn't like the characters, because seriously - dark web crime scene cleaner and an enforcer for the hick town crime boss with a short temper, addictions and PTSD - what's there to like? But I did! A lot! So I'll be waiting (very impatiently) for the next book in this series.
This book was no exception although you need to set your expectations low on romance because mystery/action takes the front stage in this one. There's a lot of sizzling chemistry between MC's but it's a HFN ending at best, if we can even call it that. One mystery is resolved but in the relationship and character development department there's so much more to say, not to mention the hints of the past that are just beginning to be revealed. I probably shouldn't like the characters, because seriously - dark web crime scene cleaner and an enforcer for the hick town crime boss with a short temper, addictions and PTSD - what's there to like? But I did! A lot! So I'll be waiting (very impatiently) for the next book in this series.
March 8, 2022
This book was really not what I expected! Grade is a crime scene cleaner and he is the one you call when you don’t want the police to find out there was a crime scene. I loved the dedication to his job here and how detailed the descriptions were. Clay is tattooed criminal who seems unfazed by most things and is tasked with helping Grade when he has to find the missing body.
I have mixed feelings on this book. I loved the concept and also how while the book doesn’t end on a cliffhanger, there is clearly more to come for these two. Clay is a bit of an odd one and I’m sure future books will cover off more about the military history we get glimpses of throughout the book. On the whole this was a good book and a really clever story but I think there is just something about it that didn’t quite click for me - although that could just be personal preference.
I have mixed feelings on this book. I loved the concept and also how while the book doesn’t end on a cliffhanger, there is clearly more to come for these two. Clay is a bit of an odd one and I’m sure future books will cover off more about the military history we get glimpses of throughout the book. On the whole this was a good book and a really clever story but I think there is just something about it that didn’t quite click for me - although that could just be personal preference.
March 9, 2022
First... I'll start with the end. That epilogue was surprising in a great way. I might have laughed inappropriately.
Grade is such a great character and Clay is a nice foil to his plans. In this book, if it can go wrong it will. I was fascinated by Grade's job and back story. True crime is something I like to watch and this story is not on the law abiding side, which made it kind of fun.
Clay is an interesting character, the kind that can laugh in the face of danger. He is the kind of character I love to read about, it doesn't matter what side of the law it is, that is why fiction is so much fun.
I was happy to see there will be another book in the series and it continues to follow Grade, so there will be some Clay too.
The book was great. The characters wonderful. A stellar book and I can't wait for more.
Grade is such a great character and Clay is a nice foil to his plans. In this book, if it can go wrong it will. I was fascinated by Grade's job and back story. True crime is something I like to watch and this story is not on the law abiding side, which made it kind of fun.
Clay is an interesting character, the kind that can laugh in the face of danger. He is the kind of character I love to read about, it doesn't matter what side of the law it is, that is why fiction is so much fun.
I was happy to see there will be another book in the series and it continues to follow Grade, so there will be some Clay too.
The book was great. The characters wonderful. A stellar book and I can't wait for more.
March 4, 2022
this story is a little dark (both main char have questionable moral compasses) and a few twists & pivots as the MCs attempt to figure out who's to blame (or be blamed) so that they take the fall themselves. the story is more (noir-ish) mystery than romance, though there is some chemistry developed between them and while we don't get to see to far beneath their surface they were interesting and compelling enough to arouse the curiosity to find out more about them & how they might get themselves out of the trouble they found themselves in.
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March 4, 2022
I liked this story and time sped by as I read. It is a little dark, a little twisty and kept my attention the whole way through. I liked the premise of crime scene cleaner for the bad guys. Our characters are morally gray and all the more interesting for it. The action plot kept the story moving, even as we watched Grade and Clay collide together. Well-written and unique, I really enjoyed this story.
March 11, 2022
This was a rollercoaster ride of a story! I didn't expect to like these characters as much as I do and I'm really looking forward to seeing where the future takes them. The plot was well crafted and the characters were gritty but still had heart. There was enough description to be real about Grade's job as a cleaner without being gratuitous. I'm really looking forward to learning about Clay and his past.
March 25, 2022
Interesting
Interesting book. I liked Clays character, he was a bit of a softy badass, one of my favorites.
Grade was different and his character seems all over the place.
The story was hard to follow at times wasn’t quite sure what was going on.
The whole criminal element of story Arc was a little confusing and at the end I’m still not sure what exactly the crime was or what Clay and Ezra “do”.
But two rough guys having hate sex was fun.
I will check out the next one.
Interesting book. I liked Clays character, he was a bit of a softy badass, one of my favorites.
Grade was different and his character seems all over the place.
The story was hard to follow at times wasn’t quite sure what was going on.
The whole criminal element of story Arc was a little confusing and at the end I’m still not sure what exactly the crime was or what Clay and Ezra “do”.
But two rough guys having hate sex was fun.
I will check out the next one.
May 16, 2022
When TA Moore gets it right, she gets it super right. I love her work and writing style. In this one, you have a wise-cracking, smart, cynical Grade who has a very complicated thing with a mad, bad, dangerous to know mobster. What else can you ask for? TA Moore's world is gritty, awful, dirty and unforgiving and I can't wait to get more. Her characters are what all those stories of bad mobsters, serial killers, and the like want to achieve but don't quite have the guts to go there.
March 4, 2022
I gave this book 5 stars because it held my attention from start to finish. Non-stop action and who done it combined. It gets pretty gritty so you've been warned if you are squeamish. I found the wrap up very satisfying so it could easily be a stand alone or support a sequel. I am hoping for a sequel.
March 4, 2022
I absolutely enjoyed this book from start to finish! It kept me engaged and I read it one go. The story is a bit dark and gritty, but it was completely worth the time. I would categorize the ending as a HFN however it fits with the characters and I am already anticipating the next book with Grade and Clay
March 4, 2022
Grade is a cleaner and he disposes of bodies for criminals. Clay is the criminal that he has to clean up behind. These two romance is dark, action-packed, mysterious, gritty and I enjoyed them. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. The book will have you guessing all the way through it and I'm looking forward to the next one.
March 5, 2022
Stellar adventure into realm of the human condition in the forgotten land of Appalachia where the shadows have secrets. Can you really escape the place you started or are you a captive where ever you wander. This new series starts off with a great storyline and I can’t wait to continue following the characters as life challenges them.
March 5, 2022
Dirty Work is the start of a new series Dirty Deeds by TA Moore.
Grade is a crime scene cleaner for criminals and Clay, a criminal. They become unexpectedly connected though an intriguing murder. Of course mystery as mayhem ensues.
This story will take the reader on quite the ride. I was eagerly turning page after page to find out what would happen.
I can't wait for more Grade and Clay!!!
Grade is a crime scene cleaner for criminals and Clay, a criminal. They become unexpectedly connected though an intriguing murder. Of course mystery as mayhem ensues.
This story will take the reader on quite the ride. I was eagerly turning page after page to find out what would happen.
I can't wait for more Grade and Clay!!!
May 10, 2022
3.5 stars. Thematically, quite promising but misses the mark on execution. Would make a riveting movie with its non stop action and snappy dialogue, as long as no one expects it to make a lot of sense. However, would read the next one to see where she takes the protagonists. Also, will try her wolf book.
March 5, 2022
Grade and Clay were wonderful characters living in the grey area of murder and mayhem. TA Moore knows how to set a scene and really bring it to life, I can't wait to join Grade and Clay and their next bloody adventure.
*I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book*
*I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book*
March 24, 2022
they're so blasé about all of the violence haha
it gave me John Wick vibes but make it gay
it gave me John Wick vibes but make it gay
February 20, 2023
I picked this up on a whim, not expecting anything, and was more than pleasantly surprised!
The plot is actually really interesting, and I liked how the mystery and suspens stayed until the end.
The main characters are all bad men, and I loved them for it : their flaws made them really likable.
The plot is actually really interesting, and I liked how the mystery and suspens stayed until the end.
The main characters are all bad men, and I loved them for it : their flaws made them really likable.
December 30, 2023
A good read
This was so weird but so interesting. It kept you wanting more and couldnt wait to find out what was going to happen.
Really liked Grade and Clay.
Not your usual romance but great all the same.
This was so weird but so interesting. It kept you wanting more and couldnt wait to find out what was going to happen.
Really liked Grade and Clay.
Not your usual romance but great all the same.
March 7, 2022
It's been a while since I enjoyed a book this much. I love how Moore doesn't shy away from the dark stuff.
March 12, 2022
Interesting
Grade The Cleaner seemed mild mannered, Clay semi bad guy was kind of psycho. In the end it was Grade that showed he was a bad a*s.
I look forward to the next book.
Grade The Cleaner seemed mild mannered, Clay semi bad guy was kind of psycho. In the end it was Grade that showed he was a bad a*s.
I look forward to the next book.
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