Susan D Peters
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THE BEAST IS TWO HEADED.
THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE IS HEROIC.
Detectives Joi Sommers and her partner Russell Wilkerson speed to the Ingalls Hospital ER and are disgusted to find the strangled body of Tamiko Triplett, preteen lying on the gurney, the tattoo of a dragon, and a pimp's initials on her inner thigh. What kind of monster would ravage and discard the fragile beauty with exotic eyes like debris? Enraged, the detectives commit to bringing her...
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Secrets Lies. Lies Beget Secrets.
Four years after closing the gruesome murder of church Elder Dennis Gregg, Detective Joi Sommers and her partner Russell Wilkerson are summoned to a South Suburban commuter college, where the body of a sexy coed is found garroted in the chemistry lab. From their first horrified glimpse at the corpse, they recognize they have been tasked with an extraordinary case.
The evidentiary trail leads them to similarly murdered...
3) Broken Dolls
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Joi Sommers earned her detective's shield the hard way--on the streets of Chicago's Westside. Having earned a reputation for tackling grisly cases that typically weed female cops off homicide, Joi transfers to the city's south suburbs-envisioning a calmer life. That notion halts abruptly when she receives a predawn call to speed to the home of a wealthy church Elder found murdered in the den of his stylish home. Detective Sommers and her partner Russell...
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The life of Marine Captain Jewel Dubuclet is shattered when on a routine patrol mission in Afghanistan, her Humvee trips an IED wire. The result is death and devastating casualties for her men, and for Jewel, the loss of her right leg. She is airlifted by Black Hawk helicopter to safety and a state-of-the-art military rehabilitation hospital, but her recovery is stalled. Feelings of shame, guilt, and a loss of her physical identity thrust her into...
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Sweet Liberia, Lessons from the Coal Pot is a delightful, painfully honest memoir that chronicles the thick slice of humanity sandwiched between Liberia's April 12, 1980 coup and the Civil War in 1989. Like many others who embraced Black Pride, Afros, African clothing and names in the 70's, Susan and thousands more took it one step further and immigrated to Mother Africa. This touching memoir is set against the author's personal growth, her cultural...