The body of a young lawyer is found in an alley, and the suspicious circumstances of his death arouse Los Angeles PD Detective Desi Nimmo’s interest. As she pursues a complex series of clues of what caused his demise, the trail leads her into LA’s porn industry. She must also fend off the rivalry of disgraced Detective Fin Mc Nab, who is desperate to regain his good standing with the brass and will stop at nothing to do so including snatching Desi’s cases and investigating her personal past. As she doggedly pursues the case amid Mc Nab’s interference, Desi uncovers a lucrative underground business and a cold-case murder but this is a world that doesn’t appreciate people asking questions. As she gets closer to the truth, Desi’s career -and life–hang in the balance. The Blood Room–Where everyone goes for the jugular.
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Christina Hoag is a former journalist who has had her laptop searched by Colombian guerrillas, phone tapped in Venezuela, was suspected of drug trafficking in Guyana, hid under a car to evade Guatemalan soldiers, and posed as a nun to report from inside a Caracas jail. She has interviewed gang members, bank robbers, thieves and thugs in prisons, shantytowns and slums, not to forget billionaires and presidents, some of whom fall into the previous categories. Now she writes about such characters in her fiction. Christina’s most recent work is Law of the Jungle, a psychological thriller novella (Better Than Starbucks Press). Her noir crime novel Skin of Tattoos was a finalist for the Silver Falchion Award for suspense, while her novel Girl on the Brink was named one of Suspense Magazine’s best for young adults. She co-authored the nonfiction Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence (Turner Publishing), used as a textbook at University of California Los Angeles, University of Southern California and other academic institutions. She has had short stories and essays published in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Lunch Ticket, Shooter and Toasted Cheese, and has won several awards.Christina is a former staff writer for the Miami Herald and Associated Press and reported from fourteen countries around Latin America for Time, Business Week, New York Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times of London, Houston Chronicle and other news outlets. A graduate cum laude of Boston University, she won two prizes from the New Jersey Press Association in her newspaper career. Born in New Zealand, Christina grew up as an expat in seven countries, arriving in the United States as a teenager. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she has taught creative writing at a maximum-security prison and to at-risk teen girls. She is a regular speaker at women’s conferences, writing conferences and organizations, book clubs and stores, and libraries. Sign up for her newsletter at https://christinahoag.com.
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