GUMBO JUSTICE SYNOPSIS
SynopsisGUMBO JUSTICERyan Murphy is a New Orleans prosecutor who likes her tequila cold and her cops hot. She's vying for a big promotion, and doesn't mind skating the line just a little to get it. If she snags a detective in the process, that's just a little lagniappe for her trouble.Enter a demented psycho, who may or may not be trying to help Ryan on her way to the top.At first, Ryan isn't bothered when gang bangers and wife beaters she prosecuted, and lost, end up dead. After all, street justice has a way of catching up with the bad guys in the crescent city.When the killer turns his attention to her, she begins to realize clim

GUMBO JUSTICE
GUMBO JUSTICERyan Murphy is a New Orleans prosecutor who likes her tequila cold and her cops hot. She's vying for a big promotion, and doesn't mind skating the line just a little to get it. If she snags a detective in the process, that's just a little lagniappe for her trouble.Enter a demented psycho, who may or may not be trying to help Ryan on her way to the top.At first, Ryan isn't bothered when gang bangers and wife beaters she prosecuted, and lost, end up dead. After all, street justice has a way of catching up with the bad guys in the crescent city.When the killer turns his attention to her, she begins to realize climbing the ranks may b

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THE NOVEL THAT ALMOST WASN’T
GUMBO JUSTICE almost did not see publication at all.I had an original draft that I thought was pretty good. In my opinion, it wasexciting, full of interesting dialogue, twists and turns, and packed a punch with asurprise ending. What I didn’t see was that it was very long. At the time, I had noidea how long a novel should be, so using the novels of several prominent authors, Idid a rough word count, based on the number of words on a page and multiplied thatnumber by the number of pages in the books. I found them to be between140,000-170,000 words, and modeled my novel accordingly. I didn’t realize prominentauthors can write as many words a

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