Softboiled Maria Sweeney The three teenagers shall learn

The three teenagers shall learn that at their expense

Kurt Severing

By Otava Heikkilä

Breutzman's rubbery realism reminds one of characters from Daniel Clowes’ Eightball

Softboiled Maria Sweeney The three teenagers shall learnBy Lisa Maas. Published by Black Rose Writing. Softcover, 238 pages, Colour, 2022. Calli Westbrook is a failure. Well, maybe she's not a failure, but her amazing private eye themed business certainly is. All she wants to do is tuck her fedora under her arm, retreat to suburbia, and lose herself in a cozy mystery. Instead, she comes home to find her girlfriend in the arms of another woman. Now sleeping on the couch in the office she can no longer