The books don’t form an official series and can be read in any order, but they are connected. Over six novels, French has built an eager fan base spanning readers of literature and thrillers. “I can’t tell if this is batsh-t paranoia or the bleeding obvious slapping me in the face,” Antoinette says, when she begins to wonder if her own sweet-seeming partner, Steve, could be the one who’s out to get her. Their hazing has rattled her to a breaking point.
Antoinette, the daughter of an Irish mother and an unknown father who’s responsible for her caramel skin, has been on the defensive since childhood, “when Ireland was still lily-white and I was the only brownish kid around, and my first ever nickname was Shiteface.” She’s an outsider on several levels–sex, race and class–and her colleagues won’t let her forget it.
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