Slime & Crime. Greater Garden Snail Police, #1

The Greater Garden juridiction has erupted into a hotbed of crime, where beer traps and winged predators threaten unsuspecting, law-abiding citizens. Called on an accidental heat-death, the best sleuth of the GGPD suspects foul play. Officer Gowoon slogs her way through a murder investigation, warding off mating attempts from obnoxious colleagues, while keeping a wary eyestalk to escape the soles of the lightning-fast giants who roam the territory.
Fortunately, she can count on brawny Zgouish for assistance, but his bad-slogger charm instills fuzzy feelings under her shell... Murder, beer-smuggling, corruption, steamy sexual tension... you'll never see your backyard garden the same way again!***"Laframboise does an excellent job of translating the rhythm and feel of the typical murder mystery into the realities of a snail's eye view." -- Robert L Turner, for Tangent Original publication in Fiction River #22 editd by John Helfers, Human not Allowed