Book Two in the Brenda Strange Supernatural Suspense series. Bella Books, 2004.

TANGLED AND DARK....Brenda Strange is back. A private investigator in Tampa, Florida, Brenda isn't your ordinary private eye. This time, she's got the living and the dead wanting a piece of the action. Proving that a death ruled as an accident was actually a murder gets a bit more complicated than Brenda bargained for.

It's Christmas time in Florida but the heat's up full blast. Brenda is investigating the death of Paula Drakes, a local businesswoman and a leader in the lesbian community. When one of Brenda's suspects ends up dead, the path of her investigations puts her face to face with not one, but two possible killers - one diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder and violent enough to commit murder. Along the way, her job becomes more bizarre when suspects start getting spooked by a fishy apparition that leaves wet footprints behind. Brenda has to catch up with the killers before something that goes bump in the night bumps them off. And if this problem isn't enough, Brenda has to patch up the relationship with her mother and reconcile with her lover.

"......Think X-FILES meets a lesbian Jackie Collins for a weekend of fun and frolic at the House of Usher....." Ellen Hart, author of the Jane Lawless mystery series.