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Home to the Violent Crimes and Overtime series, as well as January’s hit Kill the Bartender!

Overtime
The Ballad of Marcus Graves

In a city where dreams are currency and souls are collateral, Marcus was supposed to be a lawyer. Instead, he’s L.A.’s most coveted high-ticket cocaine courier and a Mexican cartel’s golden boy—servicing Hollywood’s elite with chemical courage and temporary salvation.

But when his volatile partner, the tortured and impulsive Buddy, loses $168,000 worth of cartel product on a drunken night out in the city, Marcus is given a deal: recover or match the lost stash by sunrise, or become another forgotten headline in the City of Angels.

What follows is a nightlong descent through the underworld that made him: sociopathic club owners, off-kilter trust fund freaks, cartel triggermen, and an old friend who knew him before his client list resembled a Deadline article and the product came shrink-wrapped.

Published
April 21, 2025

Format
Novella, 153 pages

Imprint
Abbycat Black

Author
Jack Chase

Cover of the book titled 'Over Time' by Jack Chase, featuring a city skyline with palm trees and a sunset or sunrise background.
Book cover for 'Violent Crimes' by Jack Chase, featuring a grayscale background of a person walking in a park or pathway at night, with headline text in red and white.

In the secluded enclave of Bronxville, eighteen-year-old Evelyn Armstrong is found brutalized in the woods, her death exposing the fractures beneath a community’s carefully tended facade.

FBI profiler James Prince arrives from Manhattan carrying wreckage of his own: a marriage consumed by obsession, a career built on proximity to evil, and the growing suspicion he may be no different from those he hunts. From a decaying lodge on the outskirts of town, he follows a thread of evidence that begins to feel more and more meant for him alone.

Meanwhile, Richard Armstrong, decorated Navy SEAL and grieving father, slips from public view. What returns in his place moves through Bronxville’s manicured streets with lethal purpose, erasing anyone who might have been involved.

As a historic blizzard closes in and the body count rises, Prince and Armstrong find themselves converging on a truth neither wants to face: that some reckonings transcend law and order, that evil often wears familiar faces, and that the line between hunter and hunted dissolves when you stare too long into the abyss.

Published
May 26, 2025

Format
Novel, 271 pages

Imprint
Abbycat Black

Author
Jack Chase

Violent Crimes
The Butcher of Westchester

Kill the Bartender!

New Orleans, 1888. A storm locks five strangers in a saloon on Tchoupitoulas Street. Cards get dealt. Whiskey gets poured.


Nobody is who they claim to be.

Joe Battle walks in looking for buried money. Freddy Lee sits at the table sweating through his shirt, running from a killing he can't outrun. Wayne Dickinson plays the Southern gentleman a little too well. And when Abraham Abernathy—war veteran, former slave, and brother to the man Freddy murdered—steps through the door, the card game becomes something else entirely.

Then there's the bartender.

Kill the Bartender!is a locked-room Western noir about debts, disguises, and the violence men bring with them when they think they've left it behind.

The bodies pile up. The money's real. And the man who walks out at dawn isn't the one you expect.

Some storms settle accounts.
Some storms are the account.

Published
January 8, 2026

Format
Vignette, 46 pages

Imprint
Abbycat Black

Author
Jack Chase