Murder in the Rose City is a taut, hard-boiled detective novel where nothing is what it seems. Eric Zachary Elias, nicknamed E.Z., is a half Jamaican/half Italian 41-year- old private investigator and ex-homicide detective for the Portland Police Bureau. He is six foot-five, hip, tough, armed with a .40 caliber Glock, and courts danger and romance with equal abandon. These qualities are put to the test when Elias takes on two seemingly unrelated cases. The more he investigates both cases, the more he realizes they are intricately connected. It literally becomes a life and death issue for Elias as he has to use all his detective skills and then some to fit all the pieces together in a deadly whodunit and why.
R. Barri Flowers is an award winning, bestselling author of mystery, thriller, suspense, and romance novels, along with true crime and criminology books, and short fiction. His novels include a brand new eBook private eye mystery, DEAD IN THE ROSE CITY. There is also a print edition available of this title.
Thrillers by the author include, STATE'S EVIDENCE, JUSTICE SERVED, and PERSUASIVE EVIDENCE. Flowers is the editor of the American Crime Writers League mystery anthology, MURDER PAST, MURDER PRESENT and has a noir tale, "The Wrong End of a Gun," in SEATTLE NOIR.
As a nonfiction crime writer, the author's latest book titles include PROSTITUTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE, STREET KIDS, COLLEGE CRIME, and FEMALE CRIME, CRIMINALS AND CELLMATES.
Under the pseudonym, Devon Vaughn Archer, the author has also penned several bestselling mainstream and romance novels, including THE SECRETS OF PARADISE BAY, CHRISTMAS DIAMONDS, KISSING THE MAN NEXT DOOR, DESTINED TO MEET, CHRISTMAS HEAT, and LOVE ONCE AGAIN.
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http://www.rbarriflowers.com
http://www.devonvaughnarcher.com
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