The Keener Eye

Katherine Mary 'Kate' Keener is the newest private investigator in the shoreline town of Rockport Connecticut. She's opened her own business, The Keener Eye, on the second floor of a building that houses a bakery on the ground floor, and her little apartment on the third. She's up against some tough competition, so Kate has been surviving on the more mundane cases and leaving the hard stuff to her rivals. Brewster and Sons Private Investigators is well established, and the patriarch, Morey Brewster, never much liked Kate. He considered her an interloper who dated his younger son just to get inside information on their business. But now Morey is dead, the Brewster partnership is all but bankrupt, and it seems like Kate Keener will be the sole inheritor of all the hard-boiled investigations they used to handle. So how does a young woman who refuses to carry a gun handle herself with a tougher variety of sordid characters and a far more dangerous workload? Better than you would ever believe. Kate Keener is fast thinking and well prepared, with a variety of skills and knowledge, and she has some very loyal friends and associates. In this day and age of electronic gadgets galore and cell phones everywhere, private investigation work is still a very viable asset to those who have nowhere else left to turn for answers. In these three thrilling stories, watch Kate and her crew succeed in untangling the crimes and mysteries that surround the New England countryside and often spread tentacles of intrigue and culpability into the greater world at large. THE KEENER EYE, a trio of short stories by Nancy A. Hansen from her author imprint HANSEN'S WAY and Pro Se Productions.