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By veronica gutierrez
As You Look
A Yolanda Avila Mystery
Yolanda Avila, a Los Angeles private investigator, struggles with the intersection of grief, guilt, and latent psychic tendencies following the death of her mother. Her struggle peaks when Yolanda’s godson Joey is kidnapped and clues come to her in dreams and nightmares. Yolanda ignores the “juju,” but when someone kills the kidnapper and starts stalking her wife to warn her off the case, Yolanda must confront her emerging ability to find the murderer before they kill again. Will Yolanda listen to the juju this time, or will she insist on just the facts and risk the life of yet another loved one?
By veronica gutierrez
My Little Black Cocktail Book
A cocktail journal that beats using a cocktail napkin!
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By veronica gutierrez
Buried Seeds
A Yolanda Avila Mystery
Former LAPD cop-turned private investigator Yolanda Avila takes on a new client whose son Gamaliel has been charged with murder. The undocumented pair benefit from the largess of Kinji Abe, an elderly Japanese American concentration camp survivor, who considers them family. This brush with the law endangers more than Gamaliel’s freedom. It opens him up to the risk of deportation to a country he doesn’t recall. And when Kinji becomes a suspect as well, his “family” is at risk too. Yolanda, her wife Sydney, and their BIPOC crew stumble onto the underside of gentrifier greed and activist angst, where things are not always as they seem, and where good people can go bad. Bad enough to kill.