GLORY OF THE LEOPARD

When a determined detective investigates murder in a picture-perfect suburban town, she discovers not all victims are saints… and not all killers are monsters.

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A young teacher methodically plans and carries out the death of her rapist uncle, believing she can escape any consequences. She doesn’t expect a soul-reading cop to match wits with her.

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Detective Blessing Okeke investigates homicides in Houston’s wealthiest suburb, working hard to solve two high-profile cases. One is a wealthy businessman executed in his garage. The other is the mayor’s teenage daughter, a runaway found dead from a drug overdose. As Blessing investigates the slaying of the victim in his garage, she soon suspects an unlikely killer: the man’s niece, a kindergarten teacher with no criminal past or apparent reason to kill her uncle. For the teenage girl overdosed in a ditch, Blessing fears human trafficking may be involved.

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With the cases growing colder by the day, Blessing must dig into the confusing circumstances and uncover the truth. And when her mother falls ill in Nigeria, Blessing faces a difficult choice: stay in Texas to seek justice for the murder victims or travel back to her homeland to comfort her mother and reconnect with her Nigerian heritage.

 

Awards include:

• Winner, 2023 Claymore Award (Killer Nashville)

• Finalist, 2024 Pacific Northwest Writers Association

• Second Place, 2024 Wyoming Writers

• Finalist, 2019 Writers' League of Texas