The Broken Detective

(coming October 15th, 2025 from Run Amok Crime)

In the vein of Sam Wiebe’s Invisible Dead and John McMahon’s The Good Detective, this hard-hitting detective novel follows private investigator Jake Joelsen, a man teetering on the edge of ruin. Facing a prison sentence for assaulting his sick mother’s abusive boyfriend, Jake has just two weeks of freedom left—a narrow window to earn enough money to support her while he’s behind bars.

When Nia Rowe hires him to track down her missing sister Sadie, Jake is pulled into the shadowy world of Watershed Moments, a powerful mega-church with secrets worth killing for. As he digs deeper, Jake must confront the ghosts of his family’s alcoholic past and battle his own addiction, all while navigating a web of corruption and privilege that threatens to crush anyone who challenges it.

With time running out and danger closing in, Jake’s fight to save Sadie may be his last shot at redemption—or his final descent.