Created by Kristen Houghton
Affable jeans-and-sneakers-clad CATE HARLOW is a New York City P.I. with more than a few irons in the fire. Her best friend, Melissa, is a hooker; she’s bouncing back and forth between two men (her ex-husband Will, a former NYPD detective, and Giles, a hunky ME who works for the city), and she also has to deal with her snootier-than-thou part-time secretary Myrtle, who disapproves of both of them.
Still, as the sole investigator for Catherine Harlow Private Investigations, she’s a pretty good detective — even if she does say so herself.
“To say I’m very good at my job is an understatement. It’s not vanity, it’s a fact. I can get into a lot of places that other PIs can’t. Maybe it’s my looks. I don’t look threatening. I’m five-five, fairly athletic and blonde. Not a dumb blonde, either. I speak softly and listen carefully. People tell me things they wouldn’t mention tosomeone who looks tough and street-smart. Let’s say that they do underestimate me and I am very good at what I do.”
A former forensic linguist, she lives in a brownstone with two cats, drives a Ford Edge SUV, and she’s lives a pretty much low-maintenance life, her one indulgence apparently “silky, girly lingerie” It’s that clear-eyed, no-nonsense sense of self that won me over, plus there’s a nice mix of grit, compassion and just enough humour in the first-person narration to keep things going.
Plus, I sorta dig the blonde in jeans on the first few covers. Sexy, but not cheesecake.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kristen Houghton is a USA TODAY bestselling, award-winning writer (aren’t they all?) of fiction mysteries as well as paranormal and horror fiction. Her novel Welcome to Hell, Teddy Jameson, was awarded the Horror Writers’ Association Best New Horror Novel of 2015, and she’s also written a book of humorous essays, No Woman Diets Alone: There’s Always a Man Behind Her Eating a Doughnut. She lives in NYC and on the West Coast of Florida, and is a frequent contributor to The Horror Zine magazine.
NOVELS
- For I Have Sinned (aka “Sins of the Father “) (2014) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Grave Misgivings (2015) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Unrepentant: Pray for Us Sinners (2016) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Do Unto Others (2017) | Buy this book
- The Hawaiian Word for Murder (2020) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
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