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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Greg Herren takes us on a fabulous ride through the mighty real world of New Orleans high fashion. A design maven ends up dead and when a drag queen in training is implicated by her own make-up bag, it takes a queen to stop a queen! A first-rate launch of a drag queen mystery serie3s we need now more than ever."—Alison Gaylin, Edgar-winning author of "If I Die Tonight" and "The Collective"
"With smart, Tart writing and a pearl-clutching climax, Lambda Literary Award winner Greg Herren launches the sparkling new Killer Queen Mystery series from the Golden Notebook Press. If you like your mysteries served up with a dollop of drama (queen) and one helluva twist (lime, with a tequila chaser)—Death Drop is the book for you!"—Wendy Corsi Staub, New York Times bestselling author
"Makeup artist James "Jem" Richard might honestly believe that Marigny Orloff is committing crimes against fashion with her ill-fitting couture gowns, but that doesn't mean he wanted to kill her. It turns out, however, that someone else did want Marigny dead. This becomes evident when Jem discovers Marigny's body the day after her latest runway show, which featured drag queen models styled by Jem, who was also pressed into service as a last-minute model. Now, in between remembering snatches of conversations he overheard at the fashion show and suddenly becoming the target of Marigny's killer, Jem has no choice but to do some investigating of his own, unless he wants his next death drop to be permanent. Personal dramas play out among the engaging cast of characters concocted by award-winning Herren, author of the "Chanse MacLeod" and "Scotty Bradley" series. Readers who enjoy crime fiction with a vividly evoked setting and an entertaining story frame will find this series launch to be the perfect literary lagniappe."—Library Journal
