Deliver Us from Evil . . .and the Six O'Clock News
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Book 1 in the Brentwood Women Mystery Series
Hildegard “Hildy” Brentwood, a fifty-year-old PR exec at Gulf State University, must discover who killed faculty member Adrienne Harrington and student assistant Bobby Jake before the university and the police shut down the investigation labeling her good friend Adrienne guilty of murder-suicide.
She enlists the help of her CEO mother, Victoria, and her investigative journalist daughter, Grace, to comb through the possible suspects, including an abusive ex, a misogynistic department chair, a slimy reporter, and a philandering politician. Not to mention a myriad of secrets in both Adrienne’s and Bobby’s past, including a twenty-year-old rape, any of which could have been motive for murder.
Hildy is attacked and ordered to drop the investigation. Nonetheless, she and her family look into the highest and lowest realms of Houston to find answers, eventually ending with a race for her life through the tunnels under Gulf State University.
They identify the killer and clear her friend with a little help from their fur-buddies: Hildy's white schnauzer, Shasta; Victoria’s black greyhound, Minuit; and Grace’s Russian blue feline, Catrina, rescued after Adrienne’s death..
