Richard Levesque

Books

Dead Man's Hand
Series: Ace Stubble, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 24,310. Language: English. Originally Published: March 5, 2015 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Zombies, werewolves, vampires, rival Bowie tribute bands, and conjoined twin mobsters…it's all in a day's work for Ace Stubble, a gritty lawyer whose clients are the undead and paranormal. Ace should have learned a long time ago that "easy" jobs are never that easy, but how could this one go wrong? All he needs to do is find the right re-animator to put some life back into the dead man's hand...
Strictly Analog
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 77,250. Language: English. Originally Published: February 10, 2015 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
Fans of William Gibson, Jonathan Letham, and Richard K. Morgan will enjoy Strictly Analog by Richard Levesque. What's a private detective to do in a future where nothing is private any more? For Ted Lomax, the answer is to find clients who need their info kept off the grid, and that's what Ted has done for years, skirting the high tech that runs the new California and living on the fringes of...
Unfinished Business
Series: Ace Stubble, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 39,390. Language: English. Originally Published: June 22, 2018 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Horror » Occult
It's another open and shut case for Ace Stubble, lawyer for the undead and disembodied. At least that's what he thinks. When Cordelia Dearborn—a ghost with a shady past—hires Ace to rid her home of pesky, freeloading descendants, Ace figures he'll have no problem collecting his fee. But there's more to this case than a cranky old ghost and houseful of unwanted people. Everyone in the Dearborn...
The Devil You Know
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 110,250. Language: English. Originally Published: February 8, 2019 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
1946: The war may be over, but in Hollywood all hell is breaking loose. When Marie Doyle discovers that demons are seducing the young women of Hollywood, she doesn't know where to turn for help. But when a demon takes the soul of her best friend, Marie has no choice but to stop them herself. Church secretary, war widow, and now demon slayer, Marie enters a world she never knew existed—a world...
Walk a Mile
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 16,090. Language: English. Originally Published: June 24, 2018 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Mike Parker does what's expected of him. He helps out with his uncle's gas station after graduation even though he feels he should be going off to war. And while he wishes the prettiest girl in town would notice him, she never does, so he keeps a respectful distance. But all that changes for Mike late one night when an old pick-up pulls into the gas station, riding on a flat. And the person who...
Take Back Tomorrow
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 102,900. Language: English. Originally Published: January 24, 2012 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Eddie Royce is an up-and-coming science fiction writer with a terrible secret: he cheats. He knew he'd get caught, of course. Eventually. But not like this. When disaster finally strikes, it strikes big, and Eddie is confronted by the worst person imaginable: his idol, the SF master, Chester Blackwood. To Eddie's great surprise, however, Blackwood has secrets of his own, and instead of outing...
Foundlings
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 108,070. Language: English. Originally Published: March 4, 2019 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Coming of age, Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general, Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Asian American
Two lost men, each with a shot at redemption that's bound to a mysterious manuscript. Kichiro Nakamura has lived on the edges of two cultures, a white foundling raised by Japanese parents in a small California fishing village. He dreams of getting published in the science fiction pulps, but the bombs that fall on Pearl Harbor destroy that dream. Struggling to hold on to his fragile identity...
The Girl at the End of the World
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 81,490. Language: English. Originally Published: January 12, 2014 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction
Her fight begins the day the world ends. Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging out with her friends and talking on the phone. She does all right at school, and she's made the best of her parents' divorce. But in one way, she's special: on her fifteenth birthday, a fast-moving plague wipes out everyone she's ever known, yet somehow it passes her by. Her family dead...
The Unhuman Condition
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 116,720. Language: English. Originally Published: February 8, 2019 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Historical » General
After her research mission goes awry, Lespeth is desperate to go home and put the nightmare behind her. Unfortunately for her, home is light years away. Trapped in 1921 Hollywood, all she can do is find a way to blend in with the aliens who surround her until she can get back to her native planet. And that's going to mean dealing with the hoodlums, drug dealers and dope fiends who dwell on the...
The Somniscient
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 82,520. Language: English. Originally Published: February 3, 2018 by Richard Levesque. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
When reformed dream hacker Nix Nighthawk's sleep chip malfunctions, he is forced to seek help from a world he is trying to avoid—his old friends in the pirate dream network. But that world has changed, and Nix soon finds himself at the center of a complex plot to overthrow the vast corporation that controls every aspect of society. Betrayed by his lover, his friends, and even the technology...