Vampires and other ravenous nasties satisfy their bloodlust in this dark collection of horror stories.
Bare Bones<br />Pixie Silvester looks on her psychic powers as a curse. She sees things, senses things – usually dead things – and sometimes she manages to solve crimes. When a child unearths human bones at a summer barbeque, Pixie experiences sensory overload and gets pitch-forked into a macabre case of missing women, some of whom have been buried alive.<br /> <br />Killing Kindness<br />When Cuddles, a wannabe fashion designer and bakery shop assistant, trips over a dead hit-and-run victim at midnight she unwittingly becomes embroiled in a dangerous scam. She shares iced buns with a crippled drugs dealer known as Al Capone and meets a sexy undercover cop with attitude, but she also has a run in with a couple of nutters who want to kill her as she gets close to solving the murder.
Perth cop Eve Rock is investigating a series of abductions from the seedy inner-city Paradise Nightclub when her boss adds a murder case to her workload.<br /> <br />Now, Eve loves a challenge – about as much as she loves red wine, exotic food and cigars – but this case is a bit tricky because she'd speed dated the sleazy salesman hours before he met his Maker.<br /> <br />But then 'tricky' is Eve's middle name.<br /> <br />Her mum's a former hooker-turned-nun who runs a select girls school.<br /> <br />Her daughter's a fanatical 'Virgin Vigilante' who attends that same school.<br /> <br />And Eve is being stalked by a department store Santa.<br /> <br />If that isn't enough, her love life is dead in the water.<br /> <br />Or it is until Eve meets dreamy undercover cop Adam Fox whose sex appeal isn't diminished by his slut heels and micro skirt.<br /> <br />And then there's his equally gorgeous dad…<br /> <br />Eve's life could be peachy… except now someone wants to kill her.<br /> <br />Operation Paradise is the debut crime novel for West Australian writer Sarah Evans and the first in the Eve Rock comic crime series.