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Blaize of Glory
4 Stars from Romantic Times Magazine

Andrea "Blaize" McCue is no longer a Sacramento P.I.: she has earned her Ph.D and hung out her shingle as a substance-abuse counselor. But trouble has a way of finding this wisecracking therapist who's past may be coming back to haunt her. Her teenage client, Connie, is found brutally knifed and murdered; then, in a eerily similar manner, so is an old school friend who had unsuccessfully begged for Blaize's help and protection. Now Blaize is driven to avenge both deaths but can she face her own inner demons in order to do so?


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Beverly Hills Voodoo
Finalist for Best Mystery
2000 Eppie Awards

Beverly Hills detective Art Murry has seen it all--or so he thinks. Then he's handed the grisly decapitation of Julia Garoute--his big ticket to regaining his reputation as a hot shot homicide detective. But can he and his rookie partner, Billy "the Kid," solve the crime before another detective steals the case and the glory--specifically the cop who broke up Murry's marriage? When the trail leads to Haiti, a 20-year-old murder, and motives of revenge, Murry must unravel what's real and what's not before his partner becomes another victim of the deadly sorcerer whose touch can kill.

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Hat Trick
Winner for Best Mystery
2000 Eppie Awards

When the gay lover of a good friend turns up handless and toothless, 12-step counselor Blaize McCue teams with her boyfriend, Detective Zoloski, to investigate the murder, and soon finds herself immersed in FBI, Treasury, and DEA agents who are not sharing secrets with each other or her as she follows a trail through a world of cross-dressing men, Middle-Eastern macho, illegal drugs, and money laundering in a race to save her friend.

 

 

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Cover Art by Mundania.

Fortune Cookie Karma
Reader's Guild Rated 10/10

The murder of a Beverly Hills psychic - fifth victim of the Ice Pick Killer - drafts Detective Art Murry and his partner Billy Kidman into a special LAPD task force, where Murry's intuitive hunches are ignored in favor of fitting together the "facts" that, so far, have led nowhere. But when Murry's intuition turns to psychic flashes, he sees a vision of his girlfriend, Medical Examiner Mary Eclair. She's dead, ice picks through her hands and feet. To try and save the woman he loves, Murry alienates his boss and his partner, risking his job and his life to find the killer.

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12 Jagged Steps
Publisher's Best Seller List

Blaize gets hit from all sides when her uncle turns up dead, her brother is the prime suspect, and her boyfriend, Zoloski, wants to get married. The "M" word scares her more than murder. Blaize strikes out on her own to unearth the killer and learns something about her own fear of commitment along the way.






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Cover Art by Five Star Pub.

Bad Moon Rising
Detective Murry was touched by a Voodoo sorceror, his life forever changed... now he's about to meet the ghost of Marie Laveau.

Bad Moon Rising is afast-paced suspense novel that combines paranormal “stories” about Voodoo Priestess Marie Laveau and the secrets of shapeshifting in Jamaica with a life-and-death thrill-ride introducing NOPD Detective Gallan to things that “can’t be real” when a cruise ship docks, a grisly corpse on board. By the end of this murder investigation in the “Big Easy” both Murry and Gallan discover there’s nothing fun on or off the cruise ship, and no escaping the killers on board.

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Born in Blood

When Jane Blackwood loses her job and Nelson shows up on her doorstep with two homicide detectives on his heels, it’s only the beginning of a roller coaster ride of twists and turns that leads Jane to suspect Nelson might be a killer. Torn between her fierce loyalty and love for the only person who ever protected her, and obeying the law, Jane accepts Nelson’s reassurances and tries to protect him from Detectives MacCaffrey and Clark, who are after evidence to put him away. But it just may be Jane who needs protecting.


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