Carl Robinette is currently developing new fiction and other creative writing. His short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune and several other publications in print and online.
Carl has worked as a contributing reporter with the Los Feliz Ledger in Los Angeles and has worked as a contributing reporter for numerous publications including the Star News in Chula Vista, San Diego City News and more.
Grave robbers? Drug dealers? Smugglers? When Hank Garnier returns home from war to find Los Pinos County scorched by wild fire, he stumbles upon two men up to no good in a dry creek bed at night. Hank is all alone but he will go all the way to the edge to get to the bottom of things. When the stakes are life and death, he'll rise to the occasion.
They say Hank Garnier is an old soul, but as a 14-year-old boy Hank doesn’t know what that means. When a gang of bikers rumbles through Los Pinos County on wild fury, Hank Garnier will find his courage and his virtue tested for the first time. "The Hard Type" is Carl Robinette's debut story.
Daisy Belle is armed with nothing but brass knuckles and a misled sense of justice as she gets to the bottom of nothing. Hold on to your drink and watch Daisy bust open the criminal underbelly of her Southern California beach town as she leaves a trail of empty bottles in her wake.
Carl Robinette explores revenge as a literary concept in his latest work of flash fiction, “Luck & Retribution,” a story published by Mystery Tribune about a hit man who finds the man he’s been hired to kill already circling the drain. It seems Mother Nature has first dibs on revenge in this story.
In “The Hard Rise,” by Carl Robinette, originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Hank Garnier is already a small-town hero and the rural press in Los Pinos County is not ready to let go of the past. But when so many of his fellow soldiers were cast out as “baby killers” the last thing Hank Garnier wants is to be called is “war hero.”
