These short stories are inspired by actual tragic events.

In “The Bridge,” Sean McClanahan, still a homicide detective, pays a terrible price when he encounters a potential suicide victim threatening to jump into the black, cold waters of the Monongahela River.

In “Bittersweet Lullaby,” Sean, now a pub owner and private eye, is drawn into a heart-breaking crime that he solves in the cleverest of ways.

Despite having the highest solve percentage in Pittsburgh's Major Crimes Unit history, Sean McClanahan retired early as a homicide detective to take over his family's historic Irish pub. He couldn't keep away from the detective business for long, however, and is now one of Pittsburgh’s most distinguished private eyes.

“Wicked Is the Whiskey,” the first Sean McClanahan mystery novel, is coming soon!

Tom Purcell
Author and Nationally Syndicated Columnist
Tom@TomPurcell.com
www.TomPurcell.com

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