Sample of Hauling Ash:

“Walter, whose money is this?” Otto said.
“I believe it’s Toney Maloney’s money,” Walter said. “Most people know him as Toney Waldorf Maloney.”
“Waldorf? Really?”
The corpse nodded as he stood and went to the window.
 “Are we related in some way?” Otto said.
“Nope,” Walter said. He pulled aside the curtain and peered out at the lawn. “It’s a nickname.”
“After the salad or the hotel?”
“Neither.”
“Ah.”
“It comes from Maloney’s favorite way to kill folks.”
“That makes sense I suppose.” It took a moment for Otto to properly process that last bit, because he wasn’t expecting it. Combination of words such as ‘kill folks’ didn’t enter his everyday conversation. “Bear with me for seeming so obtuse, but did you just say kill folks?”
“I did.”
“I don’t suppose that is a euphemism. Is it?”
“Sure is.”
Otto exhaled a long breath of relief. “Good. For a minute there I thought—”
“Waldorf is a euphemism for slitting someone’s throat, right at the Adam’s apple, and then shoving a handful of walnuts down the open hole.”
“Oh dear.”
“Along with their testicles.”
“Oh dear.”
“They call it a Nutcracker Necktie in Atlanta.”
“Do they?” Otto glanced to Walter’s throat, to the gash hanging open like a wide smile.

Praise for Hauling Ash:

“When you take an old fashioned, mad-cap slapstick comedy of errors, and then give it an evil little Tonia Brown twist, you know that the end result is going to be something special. And that is exactly what "Hauling Ash" delivers. This book is the most fun read you will have all year. I guarantee it.”
~Graeme Reynolds, author of the High Moor series