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Diary of a Blues Goddess
Red Dress Ink, August 2003, 12.95, 304 pp. ISBN 0373250320 The Heartbreak Hotel in New Orleans has a colorful past and an even brighter present. It used to be a bordello until one of the working girls was murdered there and the madam closed it down. Now it is a refuge for the drag queens and the broken hearted who have no place else to go or need a haven. The ghost of a woman who was murdered there haunts the jaunt, but to Georgia Ray Miller i...
Mafia Chic
Red Dress, Sep 2004, 12.95, 256 pp. ISBN: 0373250703 Twenty-six years old Teddi Gallo holds a special spot in the hearts of the Mafia. She is the only granddaughter amongst eighteen grandchildren of Don Grandfather Poppy Marcello. Teddi has protection wherever she goes as no one will allow any harm to come her. She and her cousin Quinn co-own Teddi's Italian Restaurant in Manhattan where she doubles as chef while he works the front. Conserv...
Spanish Disco
Red Dress Ink, Jan 2003, 12.95 ISBN: 0373250231 Though West Side Publishing book editor Cassie Hayes now lives in Boca Raton, Florida, she has never shredded her New York City lifestyle, which means coffee at any hour. In the case of her top novelist, Michael Pearton that could mean three in the morning her time as he calls her from England whenever he suffers writer's block or needs phone sex. Cassie likes this relationship because she fears a...
The Roofer
Mira, May 2004, 12.95, 304 pp. ISBN: 0778320723 The violent Irish gang the Westies has ruled in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen for decades. The three O'Neil siblings were raised by an unstable mother who finally killed herself and a father notorious for being THE ROOFER, throwing his enemies off the roof of the tenement buildings. Two of their dad's cronies helped with caring for the trio. Carol escaped into marriage pretending that her family was...