THE NAIL, is a hard boiled fantasy detective novel in the vein of such classics as Charles Bukowski's PULP, and Raymond Chandler's THE BIG SLEEP, with a new age hipster voice and a touch of the occult. Tommy Declan doesn't know a thing about being a detective. He's a barista at a coffee shop in the Lakewood Village of Cormmick NY. But when girls from the village start turning up dead, he finds himself involved. His co-worker Sadie, a seemingly normal girl with a deck of tarot cards tells him the killings will continue...until HE finds the killer. Palm readers, enchantresses, possessed tattoo artists, and bullets are now a part of Tommy's world as he stumbles through a haze of drugs, drinking, bizarre occult happenings, and heart break, to catch a killer before anyone else dies. Including himself. THE NAIL lends a hip new voice to lovers of both fantasy and detective novels, especially those who have fallen in love with Jim Butcher's Dresden Files.