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Sex. Murder. An Escort. A Mystery.
WINNER: 2023 Best Indie Book Award
WINNER: 2023 Paris Book Festival
WINNER, best novella: 2024 International Book Award
WINNER, best novella: 2024 American Fiction Award
WINNER, best novella: 2023 Firebird Book Award
WINNER, best noir mystery: The 2023 BookFest Award
WINNER, best private investigator…

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This is not your average detective story.

This was a different and enjoyable read for me. An escort turns detective when one of her customers is murdered. While this delves into the life of an escort, it is a ‘murder mystery’ with the focus on solving the murder of her client, and not her services.

The main character is delightfully forward in her reasoning, and I was invested from the start. So much so, and very intriguingly, while the story is told in the POV of the escort, I did not learn her name at all. And even stranger, it…

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