Red Light Special: A Novel - Softcover

Risqué

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345504313 ISBN 13: 9780345504319

Publisher: One World, 2008

Synopsis

Monday Smith is married to the mayor of New York City and struggles to keep her troubled past a secret. But when her husband’s thirst for high-priced sex leads them down an explosive path of passion, murder, and lies, she has to decide if her marriage is worth saving, and at what cost.

Collyn Bazemore, a Manhattan madam, deals with an elite clientele, and they pay big for the best sex in the city. One of Collyn’s most important customers, the mayor, has planned an erotic extravaganza in the Hamptons, but when he sends one of his associates to seal the deal, Collyn grows suspicious of this replacement–and yet her attraction to him is undeniable. While her mind tells her no, her body aches to say yes, and just when he melts her in all the right places, it turns out he has a few secrets of his own.

These two women are bound together by an erotically charged past, and when their carefully crafted facades start to crumble, neither will ever be the same.

About this title

About the Author:

Risqué is the pseudonym of bestselling author Tu-Shonda Whitaker. Her works include Red Light Special, Smooth Operator, and The Sweetest Taboo. She received the Ella Baker and WEB Dubois International Award for fiction writing. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and their two daughters.

From Publishers Weekly:

At the start of this X-rated crime novel from Risqué (The Sweetest Taboo), an unidentified woman bent on revenge is hiding in a closet in an apartment that the sex-addicted mayor of New York City, Kenyatta Smith, uses for trysts. The woman shoots Eve Johnson, a high-priced prostitute, while Eve and Smith are engaged in sex. The killer has just enough time to escape unseen before the oblivious Smith realizes he's cuddling a corpse. Since Smith ensures that the body disappears, the FBI becomes involved in what's treated as a missing persons case. A steamy affair develops between FBI special agent Blessing Shield and Eve's employer, Collyn Bazemore, who operates an exclusive call-girl business, Red Light Special. Was it Smith's neglected, long-suffering wife, Monday, who murdered Eve? Or did one of Smith's many disgruntled lovers pull the trigger? Some readers may have a tough time identifying with the selfish, abusive Smith. Others may wish Risqué had focused more on political intrigue and less on bedroom play. (Nov.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: One World
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0345504313
• ISBN 13: 9780345504319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272