Vinnie Briggs Mystery

A high school teacher is not your typical murder victim, and more than one suggests a connection that P.I. Vinnie Briggs intends to make. This could be a dangerous undertaking so Vinnie hires Rita Light, a fitness fanatic and martial arts champion, for protection.But Rita is seeking a different kind of partnership. While Vinnie searches for clues in data, she looks to the bedroom. Between them they stumble across evidence that suggests more victims, and the murders are driven by a burning desire for vengeance. Finding who has the strongest motive could solve the case and possibly save lives…So begins an investigation like no other, full of high school athletes, vindictive teenagers, beautiful men and women, bodybuilding, and martial arts adapted for sex. Outlier Man shows the unintended consequences of vigilantism leading to a surprising conclusion in a modern morality tale that questions the efficacy of our rules.

"His calloused hands scratched at her back. She knew this changed everything for her and him. Their worlds no longer black and white but bursting with color. If she had a drawing of this moment, she'd pin it to the refrigerator door forever." Twenty-six-year-old bodybuilder Gunter Hoffman sports enormous muscles to keep at bay nightmares of his childhood nemesis, a menacing homeless guy with PTSD known as Detour Man. But even with a body that's six feet in all directions, Gunter's afraid of people and lonely. When Gunter seeks out a girlfriend and finds one she's like all the rest: more curious about his bulging biceps than him, thinking his size provides an invincible shield to ridicule. But Gunter's mentally fragile. When she ends up dead from a broken neck, the cops seek a murderer with immense strength, just like Gunter. Private investigator Vinnie Briggs doesn't want to get involved in Gunter's problems but to please his husband he must. He's even less pleased mounting a murder defense, which defies standard procedure. Vinnie and his co-investigator, the woman's fitness champion Rita Light, commit crimes and lie, and Rita employs her specialty: martial arts sex. They take risks that endanger innocent lives only to learn vindication has a high price.