When Evil Changes Face

Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers #4

by Therese Szymanski

Something evil is happening at Alma High School, an evil so unthinkable that nothing in Brett Higgins criminal past could ever prepare her for it.

When a concerned teacher suspects that a drug ring is operating at her school, Brett Higgins and her lover Allie enroll at Alma High School disguised as a teenaged brother and sister. Against her better judgment, Brett soon finds herself returning the affections of luscious cheerleader, Kathy, while Allie is stuck fighting off the raging hormones of their number one suspect, Kathy's boyfriend, Brian.

Then one of their classmates turns up dead, propelling Brett on a nightmarish quest to stop the terror. And putting Allie and Kathy directly into the hands of a relentless predator...

Genres: Fiction

220 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Therese (Reese) Szymanski is an award-winning playwright who has been short-listed for a few Lammies, a few Goldies and a Spectrum, and made the Publishing Triangle’s list of Notable Lesbian Books in 2004 and was chosen for an Alice B. Reader’s Appreciation Award for 2008.

She’s written eight Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers (When the Dancing Stops, When the Dead Speak, When Some Body Disappears, When Evil Changes Face, When the Corpse Lies, When First We Practice and When It’s All Relative); one Shawn Donnelly book, It’s All Smoke & Mirrors: The First Chronicles of Shawn Donnelly; and edited the erotic anthologies Back to Basics, Call of the Dark, Wild Nights, Fantasy and A Perfect Valentine. She has novellas in Once Upon a Dyke; Stake through the Heart; Bell, Book and Dyke and Tall in the Saddle and has a few dozen published short stories and essays.

She’s a seasoned writer with two decades’ experience writing for nonprofit, advertising, marketing and journalistic purposes. A second-generation American, she comes from Detroit, lives in D.C., and hopes to move in with her girlfriend, Stacia, soon. Her books can be found for purchase at BellaBooks.com, Amazon.com and all sorts of other places in both the cyber and real worlds.

She occasionally teaches classes, though it's been quite a while since they've been at the college level. She's much more likely these days to be found at festivals and book signings. Well, and online.

http://www.bigbadbutch.com/Bio.html

Reviews

[Herman · Rating 3 out of 5]

When Evil Changes Face (Brett Higgins Motor City thrillers #4) by Therese Szymanski, word of advice read the first three books first, since I failed to do that I learned by way of backstory much of what happens in the first few books and I think I would have rather read the stories than be told about them by way of character development. I read this because I was looking for a good crime noir thinking having a female undercover detective in a school setting a interesting new twist. It was and the story itself wasn't bad. I gave it three stars due in part because the situation was somewhat too far out of the normal bounds of probability. (Expect any undercover operation to meet more legal requirement, but it's a crime fantasy and one needs to make allowances for artistic license) still take a star away for dubious situational believability and it's a three star read. Some good lesbian love drama and the ending wasn't that bad so overall a pretty good but somewhat ordinary crime drama with more emphasis on sex than on crime but good enough that I think I might go back and start to read those first three books. Three stars.