Steel Pennies

Set in 1960 in a working class neighborhood of a small Pennsylvania town, Steel Pennies is racially-charged murder, mayhem and mischief wrapped around a teenage romance gone wild. When teenagers Tommy McConnell and Bob Durkin discover the body of a long missing neighborhood girl, a series of killings ensues. As the body count mounts, will Tommy learn the identity of the killer before his girlfriend becomes the next victim?

Steel Pennies explores racial tension and forbidden love during the early days of the civil rights movement. It examines the mystery of coming of age in a love story that turns Romeo and Juliet on its head. Laugh, cry and remember the struggles that brought America together as one people as you read Steel Pennies.

Steel Pennies is a thriller written in a noir style laced with biting humor and oddball characters by the Amazon top selling author of Hags and Fulfillment.

"Machine-gun sentences. Fast. Intense. Mickey Spillane-style. No way around it. Paul is a top-notch noir writer. Top-notch."
Thomas Phillips author of The Molech Prophecy-describing Steel Pennies by Paul R. Lloyd...

"I never thought I would ever give a full score to a contest entry. I predict it will win awards and become assigned reading in high school, with the benefit that it will be a book that students will want to read. I loved this."
Judge's written comment on Steel Pennies in The Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense Unpublished Division.