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Micky Knight, a bayou-bred and out-of-the-closet New Orleans private investigator, takes on the cases of a widowed mother looking for her daughter and a tough gay boy hunting for his biological mother. When a young woman patient is murdered at Dr. Cordelia James’s clinic, it seems to be just a bizarre coincidence. But when another woman, also a patient, is murdered, these events reveal the frightening possibility that the crimes are more than just random chances. Even more alarming, the killer seems to know too much about the victims. As the killer circles ever closer to Micky—and the lost daughter she is trying to find—the coincidences become a grisly reality: the one characteristic all the victims share is that they dare to love other women.

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Book Review

This fourth book in the Micky Knight series is extraordinarily balanced with multiple story lines that delightfully intersect and support the shared searches for lost daughters. There are also a disturbing number of murders that hit home and at the heart for Micky and her close friends. Micky is not only a key element in the searches, but uncovers the curious link that really ties all the murders together. Such a magnificent story that weaves back and forth between the harsh realities and delicate yet profound love of children and their mothers. Perfect!

Micky Knight starts things off by celebrating her third anniversary with her love, Cordelia. That is an exceptional milestone and is given a wonderfully appreciative hats off to both women for achieving it. Very soon thereafter, Micky digs in on her assignments to find missing relatives for one distraught gay guy's need for his birth mother, one bereft mother in search of her daughter, and her own need to get some definitive answers about her mother. This is all happening while lesbian women are being brutally murdered, and an uncomfortable link to Cordelia's clinic seems to be a factor. 

Suzanna Forquet becomes an astounding touchstone for several of Micky's inquiries. She also puts a major move on Micky which certainly sends the sparks flying. Suzanna's husband, his all-round butler, and her neediness to stay far, far away from her desperately poor childhood makes her more than a fascinating counterpoint as she and Micky have several jousting-like encounters. I found Suzanna as intriguing as Micky did, but her fluctuating and compromised marital entanglements reveal a forlorn and shallow foundation that hints at a perilous and extremely fragile lifestyle. Fascinating!

Several lives were shattered, a few people were blessed, and Micky is right in the middle of everything. I more than recommend this book for not only the delightful Micky antics, the hellish do or die concluding confrontation, but the brilliant touching reunions. This is a solid addition to the ongoing Micky Knight saga!

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 266 pages/94613 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-March-2009
Price	$9.99 ebook, $17.95 paperback
Buy Link	http://amzn.to/2bctDaZ