The Crime Fiction Alphabet keeps
rolling along in the home stretch with just three weeks left.
We are currently in week 24 with the letter X. Kerrie over at her blog Mysteries in Paradise is kind enough to host this community meme. The rules a quite simple. By Friday
of each week participants write a blog post about crime fiction
related to the letter of the week. The post must be related to
either the first letter of a book's
title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first
letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction
"topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction. This time around I will be featuring a Carter Brown title for each letter of the
alphabet.
Unfortunately there is not a valid Carter Brown title with the letter X in it.
So the next best is from another author.
J.J. Henderson: X is for X Dames
A Lucy Ripken Mystery
New York
writer/photographer Lucy Ripken gets lucky when an old friend calls with
fabulous job offer. Come to LA to work on a new reality TV
show called The X Dames. The TV show features a shifting cast of
curvaceous female athletes competing in extreme sports. Bored in New
York and slightly desperate for a paying job, Lucy jumps at the chance
and makes a move to Southern California. Soon she finds herself en route
to Mexico’s Pacific coast, to the small but booming resort town of
Sayulita, location for the show’s premiere event: a women’s surfing
contest. Gigantic surf, real estate shenanigans, and a mysterious death
by drowning combine to transform the reality show into a real-time
investigation of murder in the high waves. With video cameras recording
everything for the upcoming premiere of The X Dames, Lucy and her pals
soon find themselves deeply enmeshed in uncovering a conspiracy
involving crooked real estate dealers, corrupt politicians, and an old
nemesis returning from one of Lucy’s earlier adventures.
Printing History
J.J. Henderson
Vanguard Press
CDS Books
copyright 2006
ISBN 1 59315 289
September 2006
Sounds interesting. A contemporary topic.
ReplyDeleteScott - An interesting choice, and a good use of today's fascination with unscripted TV shows. Nice, attention-getting cover too.
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