The Water Front: 1 (Alex Evercrest)

The Alex Evercrest series takes place in the recent past.Alex Evercrest a black dynamic extremely talented detective in the Cincinnati Detective unit solves case after case. She is the best.The Waterfront - Book 1A killing on the Cincinnati waterfront leads her to a prominent bitter Art curator killing runners. The Girl on the Grill - Book 2The death of a young woman thrown from an overpass onto the grill of a semi-truck result in having her apartment destroyed. In this story she meets her soul mate in Mississippi and she hires the witness to the murder a Vietnam veteran to be her system analyst. The combination of a world class hacker and her intuitive nature makes them unstoppable.Missing - Book 3A Cincinnati librarian shares the rumor that a girl missing for more than fifteen years is thought to be alive in the woods of Pennsylvania. When her car explodes during the investigation she realizes she is close to solving the case and must work extremely fast to save the girl that is now in her upper twenties.Maggot - Book 4During work on a Drug investigation she and her partner are kidnaped. Her partner is almost beaten to death. She breaks free saves her partner and then eliminates drug bosses all the way to the top.Racist - Book 5She is attacked as she rides her bicycle from her apartment to the police station. The attack causes her to realize that she is attacked by an unbalance mind because of her skin color. The attacker makes a fatal mistake of trying a second time.Votive Candles - Book 6The department agrees to apprehend a wayward pedophile priest that has fled arrest. The chase leads Alex into Mexico where she apprehends and returns the priest to the US border where he is arrested and returned to Cincinnati for trial.Country Road - Book 7A vacation back to her home leads to the discovery of an organization focused on abducting and raping young women. In total this organization has disappeared more than two hundred young women and surrendering means life in prison or the death penalty. The case spans the country and each cell of the organization puts up a determined gun battle rather than giving up.Pool of Blood - Book 8Alex finally takes a true vacation to the Island of Maui where she believes she has escaped the fact that strange cases seem to find her. However the Maui detective Unit asks her to help in solving a series of missing persons cases that they believe is the work of a serial killer. The killer has eluded detection for many years. The number of missing persons increases but there are no bodies and there seem to be no way to identify he killer. They ask Alex to help them.Alex Cathy Evercrest who dreams of being an exceptional crime fighting detective is given this as her first case.Cincinnati Detective Chief as a way to break the color barrier and put a woman on the detective unit. He soon realizes he has hired the best detective in the country. She becomes known as Cincinnatis Black Annie Oakley after repeatedly demonstrating her ability to be fast and extremely accurate with her weapon. Time and again she is attacked and each time even when wounded she eliminates the attacker.She always gives the person she is pursuing the chance to surrender but the attackers seem to think they have the upper hand but find themselves underground.Her experiences are counter to her up bringing of Treat others the way you wish to be treated. Bad guys dont understand such a concept and they die.