Sacred Cows
Karen E. Olson
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2005 Mysterious Press
ISBN: 0892960221

When a police reporter follows the clues of the murder of a Yale coed, she uncovers corruption in high places.

Paid to observe & get just the facts before writing for the New Haven Herald, Annie Seymour finds herself drawn to the story of this Ivy League sophomore whose secret moonlighting led to her violent death. Soon Annie is on the trail of a network of vice & fraud buried deep in the city's shadows.

With help from a sexy PI, & none from her socially elite mother, Annie keeps turning over unsavory stones while cracking her shins on one obstacle after another: her cop lover stonewalls, her editor pulls her off the assignment to cover a surreal parade of fiberglass cows grazing around town, & an eager beaver cub reporter nips at her heels to get the scoop for himself.

Caught in the vortex of this treachery, Annie must take the gamble of her career - outwit a dangerous con man to expose the rotten truth which could win her a Pulitzer... or a mention in the obits.

Annie Seymour is one flawed heroine: rough, brash & given to excesses, however, she's as tenacious as a Bull Dog intent on your ankle, & about as lovable!

Sacred Cows is Karen E. Olson's debut thriller & is a rip-snortin' noir mystery, liberally peppered with dark humor & evil intent.
(01/01/06)

Rebecca