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A Featured Author
for December 2011
Lori L. Lake |
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Buyer's Remorse
Book 1, Public Eye Mystery Series
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Leona “Leo” Reese is a 33-year-old police patrol sergeant with over ten years of law enforcement experience. After she fails her bi-yearly shooting qualification due to a vision problem, Leo is temporarily assigned to the investigations division of the state’s Department of Human Services. She’s shell-shocked by her vision impairment and frustrated to be reassigned to another department, even temporarily.
On her first day on the new job, she’s assigned a case where a woman at an independent living facility for elders has been murdered by an apparent burglar. But all is not as it seems, and it |
will take all her smarts to outwit a dangerous criminal. Will she uncover the murderer before other people are robbed and killed?
A Very Public Eye
Book 2, Public Eye Mystery Series
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Greed? Hatred? Retaliation? Or a Cover-up?
Winter has not yet set in, but young Eddie Bolton will never see another snowfall in his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota. A diabolical killer has murdered him in what should have been a secure juvenile detox ward at the Benton Dowling Center.
Leona Reese, a state licensing investigator, has been out of commission for three weeks due to surgery. On her first day back on the job, she’s faced with the aftermath of the 17-year-old’s death and is shocked by the brutality.
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Working with the local police, Leona discovers far too many people with motives for the killing . . . and precious little evidence. As she uncovers long-buried secrets, someone else is murdered and Leona realizes she, too, is in danger. In the midst of her own emotional turmoil, is Leona strong enough and smart enough to confront and catch a clever and ruthless murderer?
Jump the Gun
Book 4, Gun Series
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Dez Reilly and Jaylynn Savage are happy together. They’ve both advanced in their jobs with Jaylynn a Field Training Officer and Dez a patrol sergeant. Dez is now trying to decide what direction to go with her career: To SWAT? Or to investigations? Or does she continue with patrol supervision which she is heartily tired of?
With some family complications, a murder of one of their own, and the death of a key witness, they have their hands full. Then Dez is targeted by a dangerous killer, and nobody she loves is safe. How can she protect those she loves and also stop
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a nameless, faceless murderer?
Forthcoming in July 2012
Like Lovers Do
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Kennie McClain is a security guard who, unbeknownst to her tenants, owns the Allen Arms where she works. In her off hours, she rehabs apartments and nurses a broken heart. She's still recovering from the loss of her partner three years earlier and has moved from upstate New York to Portland to escape bad memories.
Lily Gordon is a nationally-acclaimed painter who lives in the penthouse. She's beautiful, accomplished, and haunted after her lover ditches her.
Sparks fly in a big way when Kennie and Lily
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finally connect...but then in one shattering moment, Lily betrays her, and Kennie's world comes crashing down around her, leaving her untrusting and in deep emotional pain. Can Kennie rise above these losses and ever risk her heart again?
Lori L. Lake's Biography
Lori L. Lake is the editor of two anthologies and author of two short story collections and ten novels, including four books in The Gun Series and the first book in The Public Eye Mystery Series. Her crime fiction stories have been featured in “Silence of the Loons,” “Once Upon A Crime,” and “Women of the Mean Streets.”
Lori lived in Minnesota for 26 years, but relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 2009. She is currently at work on the second book in The Public Eye Mystery Series and in the process of editing the fourth Gun book for publication in 2012. When she's not writing, she’s goofing off with her nieces, at the local movie house, or curled up in a chair reading. For more information, see her website at www.LoriLLake.com.
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