The Fall of Beano Haden
Teddy Prentice
Completed — preparing for publication
A closet death, a child in the next room, and a decade-old murder that won’t stay buried.
M. A. Warren
Oakland Noir
Crime fiction from Oakland.
Detective Teddy Prentice works a city where solving the crime doesn't necessarily put the world back in order.
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The Fall of Beano Haden
A closet death, a child in the next room, and a decade-old murder that won’t stay buried.
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Contemporary Oakland. Classic noir pressure. Cases that close without restoring peace.
Detective Teddy Prentice and the Oakland PD fiction — present-day streets, hard cases, and consequences that outlast the closing report.
- Teddy Prentice
- Santino Wells
- Morrisa “Mo” Luce
- A. C. Bolden
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From The Fall of Beano Haden — Morrisa “Mo” Luce walks into a room where a child is still in the apartment.
“Go play with your doll in your daddy’s bedroom.”
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The Fall of Beano Haden
Teddy Prentice
Completed — preparing for publication
A closet death, a child in the next room, and a decade-old murder that won’t stay buried.
Prequel to The Fall of Beano Haden
Loose Ends
Completed
Loose Ends, the second book of the series, is actually a prequel to The Fall of Beano Haden. Teddy Prentice begins as a lone wolf detective working out of missing persons. He is loaned out to the wealthy San Francisco Mayor’s family, the Meyers, and tasked with finding the runaway niece of the city’s first lady. Very quickly Teddy finds that the girl is running in horrible company. A video house where she is supposed to be filming is a four body murder scene. Two murderers emerge—one a hitman for a powerful businessman, the other a CIA killer—both related to the Meyers family. By the end of the tale, Teddy’s search for the girl has become secondary to stopping the two killers.
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Boardwalk’s Story: Ghosts in TV Land
Completed
A family, six in all including a baby, is slaughtered, and an Iman from the city’s most progressive mosque is shot to death outside the masjid’s front door. Teddy and Santino are heading the investigation into the family killings, while Mo Luce heads the inquiry into the Iman’s homicide. The trail leading to the family’s bloodbath tracks back to the senior member’s life in Arizona. While the Iman’s murder leads to a disapproved love affair between two teenaged girls. The tale illustrates how order to the world is seldom a result of a solved case.
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About M. A. Warren
M. A. Warren writes crime fiction set primarily in Oakland, California.
His godfather served as a police officer in Long Beach, California.
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