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Blaize McCue/Stephanos
Zoloski Series
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Blaize
of Glory
Andrea "Blaize"
McCue, Sacramento's wisecracking substance-abuse counselor fights her
own food addiction by hitting the gym on a regular basis. But her weight-lifting
takes a nosedive when a teenage client, Connie Donovan, is found brutally
murdered. Drawn into a past she can't outrun, she and the very appealing
Detective Stephanos Zoloski butt heads when Blaize is sure the killer
is Mac the Knife, a brutal rapist from her past. She escaped him once,
but this time she must face her worst nightmare. . .
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Hat
Trick
Psychologist
Blaize McCue and boyfriend Detective Stephanos Zoloski go for a 5 am
jog and stumble over a toothless, handless, corpse. "Look Ma no hands,"
takes on a whole new meaning, especially when the body is identified
by her good friend, Lon, as his missing lover, Ken Woods. When the corpse's
hands and teeth turn up in Lon's gym locker, Lon becomes the prime suspect
of both the FBI and Zoloski. Warned by Zoloski to stay out of the case,
Blaize can't help diving in when Lon begs for help. With a compulsive-obsessive's
need to finish what she starts, Blaize can't quit. Not even getting
whacked on the head, or Zoloski's threats to end their relationship
keep Blaize from plowing forward, loyal to the end. As she delves deeper,
she discovers FBI, Treasury, and DEA agents littering the sidewalk like
worms after a rainstorm - and they're not sharing secrets with each
other - or her. Following a trail as twisted as San Francisco's Lombard
Street, Blaize discovers a world of cross-dressing men, Middle-Eastern
macho, illegal drugs, and money laundering. In a race against the clock,
it'll take a Hat Trick to save Lon, her relationship with Zoloski, and
in the end, herself.
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Art Murray/William
Kidman Series
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Voodoo,
Whipped Cream, and Billy the Kid (Review)
Beverly Hills
detective, Art Murry has seen it all - or so he thinks. Then he's handed
the case of Julia Garoute, victim of voodoo. It's not enough that he's
breaking in a new partner, Detective William Kidman - aka "Billy the
Kid" - a gum-chewing, eager-to-please young pup. Murry now has a headless
corpse which leads him into the murky world of a secret voodoo society
where potions and powders and black magic make him question his own
sanity. Voodoo in Beverly Hills? Who would have expected it? It's a
helluva time to finally notice Medical Examiner (ME) Mary Eclair's soft,
sultry voice. Matters are complicated enough as Murry and Billy are
drawn into an investigation involving transplanted Haitians, Los Angeles
elite, and the shocking reality of Zombification.
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Born
in Sacramento, Louise Crawford has so far written only ebooks. But she
has a future. After writing many different kinds of novels, and thanks
to her background in psychology (she has a masters), Crawford moved to
the mystery genre and her first ebook, Blaize of
Glory featuring the Blaize McCue-Stephanos Zoloski duo, was met
with very positive reviews. However her next two mysteries, Hat
Trick - second in the McCue-Zoloski series - and Voodoo,
Whipped Cream and Billy the Kid have been particularly successful
with the former winning the Eppie Award for best mystery ebook published
in 1999 and latter being nominated. She is currently working on the paperback
versions of her ebooks. Crawford, member of both the Romance Writers as
well as Mystery Writers of America, lives in Sacramento with her husband
and daughter.