Kendrick turned to the streets to earn a living, learning the ropes the hard way. He felt unmoored when he came home one night to find her dead, and became literally unmoored when his landlord evicted him for late rent not long after. Kendrick Baker always loved his mother, even if she never quite figured out how to be a mother. If nothing else, the job gives Charlie a chance to gossip with the theater’s two other costumers-something Charlie missed dearly when he closed his own shop after his assistant, Tiana Baker, was shot and killed. He even accepts Roland’s job offer of sewing for the theater. However, loneliness pushes Charlie to accept Roland’s pre-party invitations for a glass of wine and free eye candy.
Charlie Prescott, his neighbor, is a huge fan of Roland’s flashy shows of excess. Louis for a weekend of debauched fun at his home in Scenic Hills. But Roland prefers to spend his money on theater-related parties and even more money on after parties with attractive young men that he flies into St. After all, he can buy his way out of any trouble. Roland Duchene is the artistic director of the local theatre and has many faults, none of which he would fess up to. And everything is pointing to a man in a black SUV known to frequent a St. Local sex workers provide crucial real-time information on which clients are linked to which sex workers. The unhoused people who spend summers in the park where the most victims have been found give her names and a reason to believe the murderer is dumping bodies on land, not in the river.
In short order, Colette has toured the city and interviewed far more people than the local paper did. Louis with the full backing of her employer, the New York City Tribune.
Less than twenty-four hours after hearing the news, Colette is on a plane from New York to St. Colette doesn’t need any more details to know that it is something more than gang-related violence or someone running afoul of drug runners. Several white, male escorts have been found murdered in the Gateway City, along the banks of the Mississippi in a majority Black neighborhood. Investigative journalist Colette Birzhan has sniffed out her next big scoop after her roommate, Jackie, shared an abysmal story from a St.
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