A cross between Body
Heat and Mike Hammer, Dead in the Rose
City is a taut, hard-boiled detective novel where nothing is quite what it
seems. Dean Jeremy
Drake, nicknamed D.J., is a 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. These 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 why.