Liliane's Bad Attitude

Liliane's Bad Attitude: A Street Level Mystery

One Bad Attitude Deserves Another

Liliane Dupuis has a bad attitude. Blame it on a snuffed career as a software engineer. Or a felony conviction, fallout from an epically disastrous romantic entanglement. Or maybe call it the inevitable consequence of her current reality—the slow drill lobotomy of salesclerk shifts at a convenience store on Denver’s Colfax Avenue.

Ex-DPD detective Albert Karl is a bad attitude. A bad attitude with a gun. He hates Liliane Dupuis with a pure and brutal intensity. And like her, he has skeletons in his closet, one of which is threatening to earn him an extended stay at the State of Colorado’s crowbar hotel in Cañon City.

Extracting himself from that dilemma will involve enlisting the services of an extremely unwilling Liliane. The ex-cop is about to drag her along on a bumpy and potentially lethal tour of his sordid past.

And just to prove karma has a wicked sense of humor, Liliane also finds herself having to devote time and effort to saving that hated salesclerk job from the malicious attentions of a pedantic and intolerably efficient new manager. That mission will force her to venture into the most terrifying and mystifying terrain she has ever explored—teenage social media.

THE CAST

Liliane Dupuis

Disgraced former software engineer, current convenience store salesclerk, part-time street-level amateur detective. Liliane is genius-level smart, wise in the way of sarcasm, and incurably socially inept. And she juggles trouble grenades the same way she juggles fake personas. Unfortunately, sometimes those contentious issues turn into boomerangs mid-trajectory.

Albert Karl

A former DPD detective, he yearns for the days when fists were considered standard interrogation tools and planting evidence a routine forensic technique. Now he rents out his ethically flexible services on a private basis. Unfortunately, some old transgressions have a way of coming back to haunt you.

Aaron Leesdale

Fugitive from a Florida child support lien, the former golf pro and part-time coke dealer now manages a sleazy porn shop on Colfax Avenue. When a well-dressed process server suggests a venture into the amateur pharmaceuticals field, the financial lifeline seems a little too good to be true. It is.

Howard Overling

Smart. Efficient. Attentive. Howard has all the qualities Liliane Dupuis least desires in a store manager. Cold, cruel reality is going to demand she do the impossible and find dirt on the world’s straightest man.

Dwight, Andre, Tom et al

Too smart for their own good and too prankish for Liliane’s job security. The fifteen-year-old future SEC investigation targets are the reason all teenagers should be kept in confinement until their twenty-first birthday.

Eric McAllister

Smooth, well-spoken, always immaculately dressed. This man couldn’t possibly be dangerous. Right?

One Bad Attitude Deserves Another