Temp Like Me

A murder in the family makes it personal. What slows down the chase is being caught between a small change robbery and a shot from a small caliber handgun that ends with debilitating consequences for Willam. Against everyone's best advice, he is up and about too soon, but not soon enough for Willam, as the man he now knows is the killer stays just out of reach. Enter the Temp business, where the killer has a past, sidekicking with someone who has a talent for making temps work for more than daily pay. Under the cover of a day laborer, Willam's plan is to work and wait. But someone else has a creative plan, too. And yet another person thinks he's the one with a plan. Now there are too damn many people who want to temp in Willam's P.I. shoes and he's had enough. After all, there can only be one Temp Like Me. Or maybe . . .

Gary Lucas has been writing in the advertising business for 30 years. He was born at the water’s edge in Miami, Florida and has lived both there and in the mountains of North Carolina his whole life. Professionally, he has travelled extensively along the eastern seaboard and has included cities and towns he particularly liked as important locales for his stories. His favorite fiction writer is John D. MacDonald who wrote the Travis McGee series. Taken from years of enjoyment with his writing style, Lucas does not go overboard with forensics or detailed police procedures in his writing. Instead, he writes in a fast moving and easy to read and follow way developing compelling characters that readers can get to love or hate. He began writing short stories and poetry in the 90’s and in 2000 published is first novel, Rotten at the Core. Since then, he has written and published Abracadaver and Mayhem & Maim. This series feature a contemporary private investigator and an intuitive, almost psychic wife who, many reviewers have said, is the real central character.