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“Namaste Mart Confidential heralds the arrival of a distinctive new voice in crime fiction. It’s a wild tale of wannabe private dicks, twisted religious nuts, psychopathic Armenian gangsters and crazed celebrity-chasers. And those are just the likeable characters! Andrew Miller is a talent to watch.”
-Steven Powell, Edgar-winning author of LOVE ME FIERCE IN DANGER, THE LIFE OF JAMES ELLROY
Shortlisted by Crime Fiction Lover for Best Indie Crime Novel of 2024
Los Angeles, 2013:
Adam Minor and Richie Walsh work at Namaste Mart, a hippie grocery store in West Hollywood frequented by celebrities, cult members, and every variety of absurd character L.A. has to offer.
They’re best friends, but couldn’t be more different. Brooding and analytical, Adam dreams of one day becoming a famous novelist. Richie is an unpredictable navy veteran with a weakness for booze, women, and fighting who’s just begun his stand-up comedy career.
Adam and Richie also have a special talent: They’re good at finding people. On top of their gig as Hollywood grocery clerks, they supplement their income as unlicensed private detectives on the streets of L.A.
A new case arrives: Joan Goldman is a veteran Hollywood actress of 1980s action blockbusters turned entrepreneur, now running a chain of high-end lingerie stores. Shayla Ramsey, one of her top employees, has mysteriously vanished. Joan hires the Grocery Clerk P.I.s to find out what happened.
On the trail of the missing Shayla, Adam and Richie encounter the Armenian mob, high-society Pasadena lawyers, and a family of fundamentalist Mormon polygamists led by a devout, wealthy and violent patriarch…
Check out RED SWARM—Andrew’s latest short story in issue #5 of STARLITE PULP REVIEW
Available from Amazon.com
Andrew participated in the 2nd annual Twentynine Palms Book Festival
Nevada McPherson review of Namaste Mart Confidential
Debut Novella
L.A. Stories
Hollywood.
1979.
Sleaze is King.
Hollywood Boulevard is littered with junkies, pimps, and prostitutes. Up and down the lane you'll find small movie theaters showing films no studio executive would ever sign off on, even if those same executives sneak into the grindhouse theaters to see what sort of filth the masses prefer to saccharine schlop like Kramer vs. Kramer and Ordinary People...
You'll get three sordid features for one ticket price:
LADY TOMAHAWK by Andrew Miller
In 1980 the top male escort of the decadent Hollywood elite is stalked by an indomitable female predator with a shadowy past while exposing an unholy alliance between the rites of traditional morals, and their diabolical scribes.
TEMPLE OF THE RAT by Alec Cizak
The 1979 tale of a deranged preacher, a homeless combat vet, and a B-Movie power couple driven to madness inside the mecca of licentious evil & outside on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard.
and
THE ROACH KING OF PARADISE by Scotch Rutherford
A pandering motel manager makes a pact with a street pimp to turn a downtown motor inn into a brothel. A Hollywood vice cop who owes a loan shark a hefty vig attempts to squash her debt while settling an old score.
“I’ve met [the authors] and I swear, they’re sweet guys in real life. On the printed page, they’re absolutely terrifying.”
— Rex Weiner, author, journalist, screenwriter
About Andrew
Andrew is an author, screenwriter and essayist. His debut novel, Namaste Mart Confidential, was published in May, 2024. His novella, Lady Tomahawk, appears in the anthology L.A. Stories, from Uncle B. Publications. His stories have appeared in Close To The Bone, Pulp Modern, Switchblade, Broadswords and Blasters, and on Medium.com.
