Jim Hastings

Terrygrams Jim Hastings

Meet Terry Gristle, a fifty-something veteran detective with too much time on his hands and nothing to live for except his pension. He's got four ex-wives, five angry kids, one good typing finger and a hot-headed partner who has been the cause of two of Terry's six heart attacks. At first glance, you see a cliché-a cheap carbon copy of every burnt-out 80s detective ever to hit the screen both big and small. But look a little deeper and you'll see something more than a balding, overweight, gravel-voiced grump whose five o'clock shadow arrives seven hours in advance. You'll see a man whose tough exterior belies the gentle soul that lives within. Sure he may use old slang words like slacks, cuppa joe, glove-box, dame and gams. And yeah, he may wax poetic about the good ol' days of walking the beat, getting free hotdogs at Gray's Papaya and enjoying his idea of "fine dinin'" at the Sizzler and Beefsteak Charlie's. But know this: Terry Gristle is the real deal. And he's every bit a part of today's world as you and I. Terrygrams: Diary Of A Defective Detective, is a collection of blog posts written between 2008 and 2011 by New York City Detective Terry Gristle. The compilation features several comedy scenes from the lost-in-development-hell television program Slender & Gristle (written by author Jim Hastings). Terrygrams will appeal to fans of Louis, Maron and Reno 911 as well as every old cop show known to modern man.