A Murderous Opiate for the Masses

About the Book

Forced to slow down and take a vaction, Lt. Ki Dicer uses the time to renovate; however, the murder of a popular preacher cuts her vacation short.  Almost immediately her partner, Lou Ayers who called her to the scene, suspects a coverup. When a second, then a third preacher dies and the congregation behaves strangely, Dicer is confronted with the real possibility that Evil exists.

After she is wounded, Lt. Dicer unexpectedly receives information from Fuentes, a "retiring" crime boss and a mysterious group of women as she pursues the connection between the preachers' death and the latest fad drug, GreenTarts.  As her cousin becomes involved in the case, Ki ponders the tangled relationship between the black and white sides of her family.  

Meanwhile, she takes over the training of an openly gay officer, Jill Merlo, whose partner finds a generous patron in the incomparable Rita "Rex" Xorron.  However all may not be what it seems when Dicer and her team becomes aware that Xorron's move into certain areas of the city follows a suspiciously familiar pattern.

About the Author

J.F. Huey is currently living near a pond in north Louisiana where she spends her exciting weekends reading, writing and listening to Aretha and Etta (and a few others). To pay for such Asi-Rata luxury, she teaches criminology courses at a small black college.