When one of Brett Higgins’ s dancers is found dead behind the Paradise Theatre, Brett takes it personally and sets out to find the killer. Only it turns out to be a serial killer and things go from bad to worse when Detective Randi McMartin starts investigating Brett for the killings. Then, Brett’ s girlfriend Allie goes undercover as a dancer to lure the killer into a trap.
But is Allie really setting the trap or in it and can Brett and Randi find her in time?
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.