Love is in the air in Willow, Ohio, but not for teacher Kendra Clayton. Her lawyer boyfriend, Carl, dumped her and moved to Atlanta after a misunderstanding, and the other man she thought she could count on, Reverend Morris Rollins, has romantically hooked up with her nemesis, Detective Trish Harman. Even Kendra's grandmother, Estelle Mays, has a new man in her life, a widower named Leonard Duncan, who Kendra doesn't trust for a minute. Adding to Kendra's misery is murderer Stephanie Preston, who Kendra was set to testify against, is on the loose and may be seeking revenge. Understandably, Kendra is paranoid and the evidence that someone's following her only intensifies her fears.Just when she thinks things can't get any worse, Kendra stumbles, literally, over the dead body of local art dealer, Justin Ramey during the reception for recent art school graduate Joy Owens's debut showing at his gallery. Abrasive Joy is hardly Kendra's favorite person. So When Joy asks her to find Justin's killer because her best friend, Pia-Justin's daughter-is the prime suspect, Kendra tells her to take a hike. She has problems of her own. But when Joy tells Kendra she has some juicy dirt on her grandmother's new man, and will only give it up if she agrees to help her clear Pia, Kendra grudgingly finds herself teamed up with Joy Owens in the hunt for a murderer.

Sly, Slick & Wicked: A Kendra Clayton Mystery (Kendra Clayton Series)

Literature & Fiction

Henry, Angela

United States

Boulevard West Press

Xavier Knight was an angel-until Heaven kicked him out. Now he's a private detective in New Orleans, trying to put his old immortal life behind him while avoiding Lucifer's bounty hunters. But when his latest case uncovers a plot to end the world with a supernatural drug, he'll need all the otherworldly help he can get to stop it.An apprentice mage on the run, a nosy storefront psychic, a vial of angel blood, and a surly cherub are hardly the stuff of legends. But they're all he's got.

Knight's Fall: A Xavier Knight Novel (Xavier Knight Series)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Twenty-eight-year-old Kendra Clayton never quite broke out of her hometown of Willow, Ohio. She works part-time as a GED instructor and beefs up her income by hostessing at her uncle's restaurant, soaking up the local gossip. It's a quiet life, but Kendra hasn't given up hope that one day Mr. Right will walk through the door. In the meantime, her sleepy hollow is about to get a rude awakening, and Kendra is about to get some excitement-though it's not quite what she had in mind.When her friend Bernie's boyfriend, a notorious womanizer, is brutally murdered, both she and Kendra are implicated in the crime. The only way Kendra can save herself-and the friend she believes is innocent-is by doing some investigating of her own. And the closer she looks, the more suspects she finds.Between Jordan's past and present conquests-and a chain of emptied wallets and vengeful hearts-which one could be a killer? As Kendra's curiosity draws her deeper into the case, she also becomes attracted to a man who may hold the missing piece of the puzzle-if she can survive long enough to put it together.

The Company You Keep: A Kendra Clayton Mystery

Humor & Satire

For Kendra Clayton life is good—for about five minutes. Then her sweetie, lawyer Carl Brumfield, leaves town to help out his sister in Cleveland. Her soon-to-be-married best friend picks out a hideous bridesmaid's dress for her to wear (a sequined Smurf-blue nightmare with a bow on the butt). The work she loves as a part-time GED instructor turns into the job from hell when a retired kindergarten teacher with the personality of a piranha becomes her new boss.And to top it all off, Detective Trish Harmon of the Willow, Ohio, police department shows up at her class looking for Kendra's favorite student, a troubled young man named Timmy who has been straightening out his life.A pretty local beautician is dead, and Timmy is suspect number one. When he later shows up at Kendra's apartment begging for help, it's only one more step before Kendra's back on the road to trouble again, trying to find the real killer, stepping over the line from a nice safe life into danger…and getting tangled in the deadly roots of desire.

Tangled Roots: A Kendra Clayton Mystery

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Sly, Slick & Wicked: A Kendra Clayton Mystery (Kendra Clayton Series)

Knight's Fall: A Xavier Knight Novel (Xavier Knight Series)

The Company You Keep: A Kendra Clayton Mystery

Tangled Roots: A Kendra Clayton Mystery