Dead in the Rose City

A Dean Drake Mystery

By: R. Barri Flowers

Narrated by: Jeremy Edwin Gage

A cross between Shaft, Mike Hammer, and Body Heat, Dead in the Rose City is a taut, hard-boiled detective novel in which nothing is quite what it seems. Dean Jeremy Drake, nicknamed D.J., is a Jamaican-Italian private investigator and ex-homicide detective for the Portland Police Bureau. He is six-five, hip, tough, armed with a .40 caliber Glock, and courts danger and romance with equal abandon.

Those qualities are put to the test when Drake is framed for murder in the midst of two seemingly unrelated cases. The more he investigates, the more he realizes they are intricately and dangerously connected. It literally becomes a life and death issue as Drake has to use all his detective skills, and then some, to fit all the pieces together in a deadly, high stakes whodunit and whydunit.

©2011 R. Barri Flowers (P)2011 R. Barri Flowers

Very good detective story.

Wow, there sure was a lot of action in this book. It kept me on my toes trying to figure out what would happen next.