A Scenic Hills Summer by Shannon Yarbrough

After all, he can buy his way out of any trouble. Roland Duchene is the artistic director of the local theatre and has many faults, none of which he would fess up to. And everything is pointing to a man in a black SUV known to frequent a St. Local sex workers provide crucial real-time information on which clients are linked to which sex workers. The unhoused people who spend summers in the park where the most victims have been found give her names and a reason to believe the murderer is dumping bodies on land, not in the river. In short order, Colette has toured the city and interviewed far more people than the local paper did. Louis with the full backing of her employer, the New York City Tribune. Less than twenty-four hours after hearing the news, Colette is on a plane from New York to St. Colette doesn’t need any more details to know that it is something more than gang-related violence or someone running afoul of drug runners. Several white, male escorts have been found murdered in the Gateway City, along the banks of the Mississippi in a majority Black neighborhood. Swimming pools, back yard barbecues, children riding bikes along neighborhood streets, Scenic Hills is a place where people go to escape the fast and dangerous pace of city life.Investigative journalist Colette Birzhan has sniffed out her next big scoop after her roommate, Jackie, shared an abysmal story from a St. When she teams up with a rookie hustler, the trail leads them to a quiet suburb outside of St. From seedy strip joints to private upscale men’s clubs, there’s no part of the city where Colette won’t go while tracking the killer.Ĭolette relies on the unheard, and often ignored, voices of the city to lead her one step closer to solving the case. Having escaped the clutches of a small town years ago to become her true self, Colette yearns to tell the stories of minorities and under-represented people just like her. She’s also an award-winning investigative journalist for the New York City Tribune.

She’s intelligent, provocative, and a proud trans woman. Unable to resist putting herself in front of a story as it unfolds, Colette Birzhan races to the Midwest to report on the case. The police have been slow to respond, and a local reporter suspects a serial killer might be stalking the city’s streets. Louis LGBTQIA community grows restless while searching for a missing bartender. When the bodies of three male sex workers show up on the banks of the Mississippi River, the St.

A Scenic Hills Summer by Shannon Yarbrough