Love You Till Tuesday is available in paperback at Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble. An eBook is also available on Kindle for $6.99. (Shotgun Honey Books/Contributed Photo)

M.E. Proctor’s Love You Till Tuesday, a novel about a street-smart, but attractively broken P.I., Declan Shaw, a neo noir sleuth straight out of Houston, is available in print and eBook as of Wednesday.

Published by Shotgun Honey Books, the highly acclaimed and anticipated debut novel in the new Declan Shaw series sets the character in motion with an edge-of-the-seat, page-turning thriller. Readers begin with the brutal murder of April Easton, an aspiring musical talent whose death seems both unlikely and random while pointing all fingers directly at Declan. From there, the tale travels through the sands of Florida beaches to the mean streets of Houston with more dark alleys than a covid-era bowling center.

We know how April died, but by whose hand, and why? The mystery drives readers along at break-neck speed for the ride of their lives.

Here’s what authors are saying about Love You Till Tuesday:

“In a crime fiction universe overcrowded with cookie-cutter detectives, M.E. Proctor’s Love You Till Tuesday shows how to breathe originality into an investigation of the seamy underside. You won’t easily forget P.I. Declan Shaw’s witty, often dark pursuit of a killer.” — Nick Kolakowski, author of Boise Longpig Hunting Club and Payback is Forever

“Make way for Declan Shaw, sharp as the edge of a knife, tough as a bucket of nails, emotionally damaged and irrepressibly charming, searching for truth in the mean streets of the modern American South—the neo-noir hero we need in these trying times!” — Douglas Lumsden, author of A Troll Walks into a Bar and A Nymph Returns to the Sea

M.E. Proctor is a Derringer Award nominee whose work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines: Vautrin, Reckon Review, Mystery Tribune, Black Cat Weekly, Thriller Magazine, and Shotgun Honey among others. Her shorth story collection, Family and Other Ailments – Crime Stories Close to Home (Wordwooze Publishing) was published in 2023.

Love You Till Tuesday is the first novel in her Declan Shaw P.I. series. Declan is based in Houston, where M.E. Proctor lived for 20 years. The second book in the series, Catch Me on a Blue Day, is slated for publication in 2025. Born in Brussels, Proctor now lives in Livingston, Texas.