Elsie's roommate is brutally murdered and the police have no suspects. Elsie desperately wants to avenge her best friend's murder. She sets out to trap the killer by using herself as bait...
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"...a dark, violent, and sexy novel--a compulsive page turner with a daring, powerful, and psychologically complex heroine." -- Barbara Brackney, Ann Arbor, MI, psychologist
"Incredibly graphic, chillingly descriptive...a journey through the darkness of the human spirit, seen through the eyes of a psychopath." -- Aimee McLeod for Murder List
"Spirit of the Straightedge is a riveting, merciless, uncompromising, and powerful piece of writing." -- Henry Slesar, author
"Incredibly graphic, chillingly descriptive...a journey through the darkness of the human spirit, seen through the eyes of a psychopath." -- Aimee McLeod for Murder List
"Spirit of the Straightedge is a riveting, merciless, uncompromising, and powerful piece of writing." -- Henry Slesar, author
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Babs Lakey and her husband Lewis own a high performance motorcycle shop in Minneapolis, MN. She is the publisher of Futures Magazine, a bi-monthly publication featuring the best of multi-genre fiction. There are four books in the Elsie Sanders series. Spirit of the Straightedge is the first to be published.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
VIOLENT AND RELENTLESS,
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This review is from: Spirit of the Straightedge: An Elsie Sanders Thriller (Paperback)
ELise Sanders is a driven, disturbed woman who survived child abuse and grew into a violent and relentless vigilante. Babs Lakey is not a polished writer, but she grabs you by the throat and there is visceral honesty to her work that is hard to ignore. Probably as much a horror genre book as a thriller or a mystery, "Spirit Of The Straight Edge" is strong stuff indeed and not for the faint of heart.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
... here's a chance to expand your reading!,
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This review is from: Spirit of the Straightedge: An Elsie Sanders Thriller (Paperback)
"Spirit of the Straightedge" is not your typical "...-woman-deals-with-adversity-and-comes-out-on-top novel". Maybe if Jim Thompson (i.e., Killer Inside Me, The Grifters, After Dark, My Sweet, etc.) was writing an "... book," but then he'd be hard pressed to improve upon Babs Lakey's efforts. Babs tells the story of two abused characters in a rapid fire first person perspective which shifts between the characters and gives the reader an almost God's eye view of the unfolding story. The details are dealt out piece by piece so that the reader is given the big picture of the two main protagonists and how their lives molded who they are. The contrast in the psychopathy of the two characters reminds me of a discussion on Batman and the Joker's personalities that appeared at the time of the first Michael Keaton movie. Batman's just as nuts as the Joker, but he comes at it from another perspective. The same is true with Els, who has survived a similar family unit as Peter both of their childhoods molding their adult lives."Spirit of the Straightedge" deals mainly with nurture causes and foregoes looking into any of the natural enablers of its characters' personalities. This book isn't for the squeamish and is very graphic in its depictions of life. It's never gratuitous, but it's neither for the sensitive reader nor possibly for those who have survived similar childhoods. It's a fascinating read nonetheless. This is book one in a series of psychological suspense novels coming from Babs Lakey ... hopefully she doesn't make us wait long and hopefully she takes her unwavering and dissecting eye beyond what evils men do and includes more of the fairer sex too. Not that she's unfair in her representation of men. She goes beyond that to show the evils enabled and caused by the women involved in the story as well, but Peter's mother for example leaves this reader wanting to know more and Babs Lakey will no doubt deliver.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Relentless is the word for Elsie....,
This review is from: Spirit of the Straightedge: An Elsie Sanders Thriller (Paperback)
and with good reason. She's mad as hell and she's not going to take it anymore. Her life to date has handed her lemons and she's busily making lemon-ade with some of them and (lemon-)pepper spray with the rest. The author is a whiz at characterization (I'm madly in love with Law) and gives us people as real as the ones next door. I loved some, (knew a couple, I think), hated some, and was apathetic about none. My acid test for books are that they (1) must entertain me and that (2) the ending must satify. This read met both those tests. It kept me up waaaay past bedtime and let me feel sated when finished. Nothing predictable or formulated here, just a bang-up story. I'm waiting for the next "Elsie" book to hit the shelves. (I admit, I'm looking for more of Law, too!)
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