Alex Hughes

A Mindspace Investigations Novel

1 - Clean (Sep-2012)
1.5 - Payoff (Mar-2013)
2 - Sharp (Apr-2013)
3 - Marked (Apr-2014)
4 - Vacant (Dec-2014)

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  The Fourth Rule
  

  • Mar-2018
  • / General Fiction
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  For four seasons, Hara has led her mercenary company to profit and glory, but this campaign turns worse by the day. Casualties are mounting. Hara is wounded in battle. Now the selfish general won't pay what he owes while her troops starve. Can she ge...

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  In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
  

  • Feb-2018
  • / General Fiction
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  In the Viking world, the slave-boy they call Fool owns nothing but a rag helmet and a butcher’s knife he stole from the trash. Even so, he will stand this day with the other boys who are fifteen, risking his life at the coming of age sidr for th...

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  Temper
  

  • Dec-2015
  • / Dark Fantasy
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  Introducing Temper, the first Mindspace Investigations novella from ex-Homicide Detective Isabella Cherabino's point of view...Some Clients Test You More Than OthersGetting fired from the DeKalb County P.D. was hard, and starting up a private investi...

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  Fluid
  

  • Nov-2015
  • / Urban Fantasy
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  Good Cop, Bad Cop A prominent journalist has been found dead, a journalist investigating police corruption. I'm supposed to be working in my new P. I. firm, but the money's not enough so I'm back consulting for the police as a telepath. Turns out t...

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  The Three Words Project
  

  • Nov-2015
  • / General Fiction
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  Banana. Elephantine. Kendama. -- What kind of worlds can be created from just three words? In the summer of 2014, I asked the readers of my email newsletter to send me just three words, which I would use to inspire flash fiction pieces I'd write on t...

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  Vacant
  

  • Dec-2014
  • / Science Fiction
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  A Mindspace Investigations Novel - 4
  

  Nothing ruins a romantic evening like a brawl with lowlifes -- especially when one of them later turns up dead and my date, Detective Isabella Cherabino, is the #1 suspect. My history with the Atlanta PD on both sides of the law makes me an unreliabl...

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  Marked
  

  • Apr-2014
  • / Science Fiction
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  A Mindspace Investigations Novel - 3
  

  FORESEE NO EVIL. Freelancing for the Atlanta PD isn't exactly a secure career; my job's been on the line almost as much as my life. But it's a paycheck, and it keeps me from falling back into the drug habit. Plus, things are looking up with my so...

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  Rabbit Trick
  

  • Mar-2014
  • / Dystopian
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  The first short story in the Mindspace Investigations universe featuring telepathic detective Adam Ward - PLUS two bonus short stories in other worlds. OPEN MIND When the cops call me in the middle of the night, I know it’s bad. One of their own is...

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  Sharp
  

  • Apr-2013
  • / Science Fiction
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  A Mindspace Investigations Novel - 2
  

  HISTORY HAS A WAY OF REPEATING ITSELF, EVEN FOR TELEPATHS.… As a Level Eight telepath, I am the best police interrogator in the department. But I’m not a cop -- I never will be -- and my only friend on the force, Homicide Detective Isabella C...

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  Payoff
  

  • Mar-2013
  • / Science Fiction
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  A Mindspace Investigations Novel - 1.5
  

  Being a telepath, I should have seen the hell I was getting myself into… I used to be one of the most powerful telepaths in the guild. That was before my drug addiction and before they kicked me out. But I'm not a bad guy. Now I help the Atlanta...

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  Clean
  

  • Sep-2012
  • / Science Fiction
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  A Mindspace Investigations Novel - 1
  

  A RUTHLESS KILLER -- OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND I used to work for the Telepath’s Guild before they kicked me out for a drug habit that wasn’t entirely my fault. Now I work for the cops, helping Homicide Detective Isabella Cherabino put kille...

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  Enma
  

  • Dec-2011
  • / Science Fiction
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  Orphenn is an orphan, and he was beginning to think that that was all he would ever be. So when a strange woman who calls herself his sister spirits him away and hurls him into another universe, he felt absolutely overwhelmed. Family, friends, and al...

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