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Accidental Justice: The Skinhead, the Thief, and the Mail Order Bride - A True Romance Crime Thriller
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 4 2025
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A car thief. A trafficked woman. A violent neo-Nazi skinhead. Palm Springs will never be the same.
1993, Southern California. Skip Barker is a down-and-out punk rocker turned car thief, just trying to outrun bad decisions in a stolen Porsche when he hears a noise in the trunk. What he finds isn't anything he could have expected.
It's Vesna Petrovic, a terrified mail-order bride from Yugoslavia, bound and desperate. She crossed the world to marry one man, only to end up trapped in the trunk of another man's car.
Now Skip isn't just running from the cops. He's running from Dragan, a violent skinhead who works for the Palm Springs gay mafia, enforcing their twisted brand of justice with brass knuckles and baseball bats. And he wants his property back.
Vesna came to America chasing a promise that turned into a nightmare. Skip didn't plan on being her rescuer, but when fate throws them together, both their lives are turned upside down. Caught between a corrupt system, a brutal enforcer, and the burning question of who they can trust, the unlikely pair must navigate betrayal, loyalty, and the messy business of survival.
Meanwhile, Grace Porter, a career detective with her own scars, is trying to bring down the man her chief wants for murder and find the missing girl she isn't sure exists. But justice doesn't come easy in a city where the skeletons aren't the only things coming out of the closet.
With the help of a few unlikely friends, Skip and Vesna begin a journey that turns from flight into fight and from escape into something like redemption.
For readers who like over-the-top action, dark humor, flawed protagonists, and gritty crime thrillers that don't pull punches.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
1990s crime thrillers
Outlaw redemption stories
Gritty desert noir
Character-driven stories about impossible choices
In a world where everyone is chasing something-money, power, revenge-nobody gets what they deserve. Sometimes the only justice you get is an accident.
Content Warning
This book contains strong language, including profanity, racial and homophobic slurs, as well as graphic depictions of violence and some sexual content. These elements are presented within the context of the story's time, setting, and characters, and do not reflect the views of the author or publisher.
Reader discretion is advised.
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