Atticus Slade Cases
Justice comes at a cost.
Crime. Mystery. Noir.
Los Angeles is home base, but Atticus Slade goes wherever the case takes him — from small towns keeping big secrets to the rot hiding just beneath Hollywood's polish. He doesn't take the easy cases. He takes the ones everyone else wants buried.
The World of Atticus Slade
A private investigator with a code he won't break, working out of a strip-mall office on Western Avenue. Some cases keep him in Los Angeles, working the city's own long memory for secrets. Others fly him out to towns most people have never heard of, chasing a truth someone paid good money to keep buried. Stand-alone cases, one detective, one simple rule: the truth comes out, whatever it costs.
Kill Me Not
A missing woman. A system full of secrets.
Flown in from Los Angeles on the family's dime, Atticus is hired to clear the boyfriend everyone in the small town of Meldrake has already convicted. Mindy Grace Potter vanished without a trace — blood, a struggle, no body. The deeper Atticus digs into a town that thinks it already knows the ending, the clearer it becomes that everyone here is protecting something, and not all of it has to do with the missing woman.
“Everyone kept telling me to let it go. That should have been my first clue.” —From Kill Me Not
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Hollywood Sacrifice
Fame has a price. So does silence.
A struggling writer hires Atticus to prove his late grandmother, actress Celeste Moore, was murdered decades ago — one name in a pattern of deaths tied to a single Los Angeles family that stretches back two generations. This time, Atticus doesn't have to leave the city. He just has to convince it to finally tell the truth about what happened behind its own silver screens.
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Poison Apple Martini
He never counted on the quiet evening drink being his last.
Still shaking off the Bernard case, Atticus takes on something closer to home: a husband dead from a martini that was never meant for him. What looks like a simple case of a wrong glass in the wrong hand unravels into a story of jealousy, love, and a family that destroyed itself from the inside — solved not from a courtroom, but from his usual stool at Benny's bar.
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Cause and Effect
A hit-and-run on a quiet Fontana street. A suspect who looks guilty on paper.
Michael Whitmer steps off a curb outside his usual diner one September night and never makes it home. Every eyewitness, every record, every motive lines up against one man with a grudge and no alibi. But the crime scene itself won't cooperate with the easy answer, and Atticus can't stop circling back to the details that don't fit — because when a story makes too much sense, people stop looking for the one that's true.
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Themes Inside the Series
Secrets
What a town — or a family — buries.
Justice
What it actually costs.
Legacy
What gets inherited, wanted or not.
Redemption
What one man chases, case after case.
New cases. New questions to chase.
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