Yes, there were both suspense and thriller aspects that added excitement (that I enjoyed of course). This was a book unlike anything I've ever read before. It showed both the darkness and the hope and love of trying to recover and do better. There was also a look at the life of a child growing up way too soon with a drug addicted mother. Their stories also gave glimpses into LGBTQIA discrimination, including a lack of interest by both police and journalists regarding the deaths of sex workers just because of their perceived sexual orientations. I found myself lost in their stories, hurt by the choices they made to just get by, scared for their safety, wanting them to have better opportunities in their lives (re: the male sex workers).
This book is more of an intimate look at parts of the LGBTQIA community. Because, the killer is revealed very early on.
This wasn't really a mystery in search of a killer. Swimming pools, back yard barbecues, children riding bikes along neighborhood streets, Scenic Hills is a place where people go to escape the fast and dangerous pace of city life.
When she teams up with a rookie hustler, the trail leads them to a quiet suburb outside of St. From seedy strip joints to private upscale men’s clubs, there’s no part of the city where Colette won’t go while tracking the killer.Ĭolette relies on the unheard, and often ignored, voices of the city to lead her one step closer to solving the case. Having escaped the clutches of a small town years ago to become her true self, Colette yearns to tell the stories of minorities and under-represented people just like her. She’s also an award-winning investigative journalist for the New York City Tribune. She’s intelligent, provocative, and a proud trans woman. Unable to resist putting herself in front of a story as it unfolds, Colette Birzhan races to the Midwest to report on the case. The police have been slow to respond, and a local reporter suspects a serial killer might be stalking the city’s streets. Louis LGBTQIA community grows restless while searching for a missing bartender. When the bodies of three male sex workers show up on the banks of the Mississippi River, the St.
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