Ashetown Blues

"Nobody knows tough times until you''ve spent a year in Ashetown."

In the Imperial capital, the Ashetown district is where the trash flows downstream and where private detective Thomas Martel calls home.

Ashetown Blues is a collection of three sci-fi noir stories featuring Martel as he searches for meaning in a world where right and wrong merge into the gray of the night.

"The Cold Sleep"

Even the rich have problems, even after they''re dead.

Martel is hired to find a young socialite after her body goes missing from the morgue, but the truth he finds goes deeper than six feet under.

"Lady Falcata"

Ashetown was no place for a lady, but Michelle Falcata was not the lady she used to be. Of noble birth, Lady Falcata had traded a silver spoon for a pair of nine-millimeter pistols and never looked back.

"Wasabi City"

The Little Tokyo enclave dealt with their own problems until gangsters started dying at the hands of a mythical Oni. Now, the Yakuza need Martel''s help, but will the blood flow deeper than a P.I. can swim?