Funeral For A Grifter: Premium Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798262125708)

Funeral for a Grifter (Premium Edition) - Book One of Blood Orange Moonrise A Plateworks Serial Series

In Mercy Flats, Texas, the truth wears a preacher's suit and carries a switchblade. Ex-conman Arlo Delgado comes home to bury his brother-a DEA agent with too many enemies-and leaves the cemetery in a stolen reverend's Cadillac. Inside the trunk: a preacher's ledger, a burner phone, and a message that reads, You're late. Don't forget the hymn.

Across the desert, former gospel singer turned bounty hunter Cricket Duarte hunts a rumor: her sister Luz might be alive. The trail points to a pop-up revival where faith is performance and sins are tallied like debts. Arlo and Cricket don't trust each other-but the same ghosts keep calling, and the music won't stop.

What you'll find inside

• Neo-noir, Southern Gothic pulse-grit, lyric heat, and razor-edged dialogue.
• Alternating POVs (Arlo & Cricket) with present-tense interludes that hum like a hymn.
• Cemetery eulogy, the Dead Hallelujah bar, a Cadillac "miracle," and the first breadcrumb on the revival circuit.
• A tight, bingeable episode ( 20,000 words) ending on a ruthless cliffhanger.

Perfect for fans of True Detective (S1), Elmore Leonard's sharp talk, the Coens' fatalism, Gillian Flynn's tension, and Tarantino-esque pulp swagger.

Content notes: language, violence, criminal activity, religious themes, trauma recovery.

Series order: 1) Funeral for a Grifter - 2) The Gospel According to Luz - 3) Mercy Flats ... through 10) Blood Orange Moonrise.

Start the legend here. The hymn's already begun.