Cops and Comix (Murder and Mayhem, #0.5)

A Murder and Mayhem ShortIt’s all fun and games until someone leaves a dead body on the floor.Life for comic book store owner Alex Martin usually runs to the mundane. Sure, he has a regular influx of geeks and freaks, but for the most part, it’s a familiar weird. That all changes when he opens up Planet X Comics one morning and finds a corpse in the middle of his shop.When Detective James Castillo is called in to investigate, Alex is torn between wanting to climb the man like a tree and giving him a wide berth. Luckily for Alex, the handsome detective is just as interested in him—as a suspect in the murder.Previously published in Grand Adventures by Dreamspinner Press, March 2014.