Tony Price: Confidential

It's November 1987 in Scarborough, Ontario, and someone – or something – is killing off Tony Price's clients in the Silver Birch housing project. The community, already dysfunctional and violent, is terrified. Tony, a chain smoking, vodka soaked burnout, sets out to find the killer. Badgered by a skeptical Children's Aid worker and two relentless police detectives, he is running out of time. In a search that takes him from the darkest corners of Scarborough to Caracas and the Venezuelan outback, Tony discovers that he alone is capable of destroying the monster. From one of the most original indie writers publishing today, this novella can be described as urban fantasy and perhaps the first social work noir. Scarborough: Confidential, is a fast paced read for the discerning consumer of indie lit.

It's 1994 and eight years have passed since the horrific events at the Silver Birch Housing Project, recorded in Scarborough: Confidential. At the urging of his girlfriend Brenda, vodka soaked social worker Tony Price has decided to take a vacation in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. Far from home, Tony stays with local hunter and social worker, Colin Kowlchuk. All he wants to do is drink, smoke, fish and forget everything else. No such luck. Something evil has appeared in the boreal forest north of town. Something that will leave a bloody trail of death until stopped. Aided by Colin, an aboriginal Shaman, and a comely cryptozoologist from Leipzig, Tony sets out to destroy the monster. Once again, horror, hilarity, serious drinking and social work converge in the second volume of the Tony Price: Confidential trilogy.

Thirty years of social work at the Silver Birch housing project in Scarborough come to an abrupt end for Tony Price after he rescues a woman and child from an armed dope fiend. Burnt out and vodka-soaked, he is forced into retirement. During the hot summer of 2016 he moves with his wife, Brenda, to historic Kingston, Ontario. Though closer to their twins who attend Queens University, Tony is bored and at loose ends. Then a homicidal madman appears in town; a sociopathic enigma who effortlessly evades capture. Tony investigates and discovers the answer may lie with their mysterious neighbor; a saintly doctor with a dark secret. Once again, he becomes the key to stopping a monster. But this time he's not alone as he discovers his daughter, Ashley, has inherited his gift for fighting evil. A fast paced thriller from one of the most innovative indie authors writing today, featuring horror, hilarity, social work and vodka; this is the final entry in the Tony Price: Confidential trilogy.