When It's All Relative (Motor City Thriller) [Paperback]

Therese Szymanski (Author)

Book Description

Series: Motor City Thriller | Publication Date: March 25, 2008

When Brett Higgins gets into trouble, she takes no prisoners. Usually.

But when Brett's longsuffering live-in lover Allie catches her cheating with not just one woman, but two, Brett has more than a little oopsie to make up for.

She'll do anything to appease Allie, but never dreams that Allie will ask for a price higher than any she might have imagined: that Brett make contact with her own family.

The family she was born to, the family that tore Brett apart physically, emotionally and mentally, is dying off, one by one, and not always from natural causes. Allie, desperate for proof that Brett is capable of caring about anything besides her own desires, wants Brett to find out who did what, and then do something about it. Faced with the reality that if she fails Allie again, it will be the last time, Brett walks into her worst nightmare. When It's All Relative, the prisoner taken could ultimately be Brett.

Therese Szymanski's 8th Motor City Thriller explores the most terrifying darkness of all: the one inside Brett Higgins.

Product Details

• Paperback: 172 pages
• Publisher: Bella Books (March 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594931097
• ISBN-13: 978-1594931093
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,382,651 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Therese (Reese) Szymanski (www.BigBadButch.com) is an award-winning playwright who has been short-listed for a few Lammies, a few Goldies and a Spectrum, and made the Publishing Triangle's list of Notable Lesbian Books in 2004 and was chosen for an Alice B. Reader's Appreciation Award for 2008.

She's written eight Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers (When the Dancing Stops, When the Dead Speak, When Some Body Disappears, When Evil Changes Face, When the Corpse Lies, When First We Practice and When It's All Relative); one Shawn Donnelly book, It's All Smoke & Mirrors: The First Chronicles of Shawn Donnelly; and edited the erotic anthologies Back to Basics, Call of the Dark, Wild Nights, Fantasy and A Perfect Valentine. She has novellas in Once Upon a Dyke; Stake through the Heart; Bell, Book and Dyke and Tall in the Saddle and has a few dozen published short stories and essays.

She's a seasoned writer with two decades' experience writing for nonprofit, advertising, marketing and journalistic purposes. A second-generation American, she comes from Detroit, lives in D.C., and hopes to move in with her girlfriend, Stacia, soon.

She occasionally teaches classes, though it's been quite a while since they've been at the college level. She's much more likely these days to be found at festivals and book signings. Well, and online.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Brett's back, April 30, 2008

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This review is from: When It's All Relative (Motor City Thriller) (Paperback)

It's been a couple of years since Brett Higgins has made an appearance and she's back in full force.

Therese Szymanski has written another tightly paced, sexy, giggle out loud book featuring the brooding Brett. Last seen in 2005's When First We Practice, Brett has remained with g/f Allie, although that relationship continues to have its ups and downs.

When It's All Relative makes one glad that not all families are as dark and desperate. The emotional minefields are sometimes hard to read, they stick with the reader after setting the book down, and the ending makes the reader want for more. Hopefully, another few years won't pass before we get another Brett Higgins visit.

If you enjoy reading well-written books with smart dialogue and a sharp wit, pull up a chair and enjoy the newest Szymanski offering....you won't be disappointed.