Kurt West always has a hard time getting green alien blood out of his clothes. At least the diplomat’s blood was blue. Kurt is a bounty hunter living in a small southern town, but when an alien diplomat is murdered on the street, Kurt is contracted to use his knowledge of the alien underground to track down the murderer. Even though his bail bondsman boss is breathing down his neck to bring in a bail jumper before he loses the business, Kurt must find the killer or Earth risks losing the protection that keeps a dangerous flood of aliens at bay. A Southern noir sci-fi detective story, Murder & Mochas bounces a sarcastic and gritty detective off aliens and life in a small southern town to produce a fun, page-turning mystery

Former Marine Kurt West is a bounty hunter who, when not chasing bail jumpers, tracks down aliens who stray outside the lines of the normally quiet—and supposedly alien-free—Chapel Hill. As the college town’s annual crowded street party approaches, the man accused of a chilling execution-style murder has skipped out on bail and fear grips the community. Kurt gets the call to bring him in, but soon discovers ties between his fugitive and the illicit alien drug trade. When a floater turns up in a lake, apparently killed with an alien weapon, Kurt suddenly has two high-priority cases. But do the cases connect? And do they lead where Kurt thinks or to some place even more deadly?

Chocolate is disappearing from North Carolina’s Triangle Region. A series of audacious thefts have systematically cleared out all of the local manufacturers. Has to be the lizards. But would they be so brazen and could they be so systematic? Through the investigation, Kurt West finds an array of odd clues, not particularly unusual for an ET crime, but difficult to fit together. As he gets closer to discovering the identity of the thieves, the investigation becomes increasingly dangerous. But is chocolate really worth killing over? Apparently with the price it commands Offworld, it is. Will Kurt be able to find the culprits before anyone else gets killed and will he find them before they hop a transport crate and disappear across the galaxy …