Mark de Castriqe’s Dangerous Women calls for an off the grid hero with friends in high places: enter retired FBI agent-turned-boardinghouse landlady, Ethel Crestwater (legend) and Jesse (sidekick; double-first cousin-twice-removed).
 
At first it appears a mugging gone horribly wrong: one man dead, and a woman left in a coma one Friday night in Washington, D.C. The woman is Arlington police detective Frank Mancini's niece, and lives in the boarding house run by retired FBI-agent-turned-landlady Ethel Fiona Crestwater. Ethel and Frank are old friends, and so she volunteers to investigate the crime on Frank's behalf, as his hands are tied by jurisdictional issues. But what appears at first a random robbery soon proves more diabolical, and Ethel and her g with only Detective Mancini's business card on his person, and then the Chief Justice's life is threatened, Ethel and her double-first-cousin-twice-removed Jesse Cooper will have to breach more than boundaries as they investigate a case that could have supreme consequences—for the nation and for their own lives.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
MARK DE CASTRIQUE grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina where many of his novels are set. He's a veteran of the television and film production industry, has served as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte teaching The American Mystery, and is a frequent speaker and workshop leader. He and his wife, Linda, live in Charlotte, North Carolina. Learn more about De Castrique at markdecastrique.com