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Enter the sweet-smelling streets of the French Quarter





Enter the sweet-smelling streets of the French Quarter
"A vibrant and new voice in crime fiction--Sharon CassanoLochman has crafted an exhilarating mystery set among the sweet-smelling streets of the French Quarter. Brimming with humor and suspense, THE MAN WITH THE SAND DOLLAR FACE is an exciting debut."

 --J.R. Angelella, author of ZOMBIE: A NOVEL

Hattie Crumford, a quirky widow in her early sixties, takes her first job answering the phone in a private investigator's office. Running a little late one morning, she discovers an agitated man pacing at the office door. He insists he must see the PI immediately. In the midst of his anxious demands, he clutches his chest and collapses. Shocked, Hattie runs for help. Upon returning, the man has disappeared. Detective Hugo Gabby and Hattie's boss, Wallace C. Woodard, are skeptical and dismissive of her story. To prove it's not her wild imagination, Hattie sets out to find the missing man using only the cryptic note he left in his place and his last words as her clues.

Meanwhile, the private investigator is onto something and tells Hattie to retrieve a disc in his file cabinet, which must be delivered to the police immediately.

When Hattie returns to the office the next morning, she's met by two men who usher her out at knife point and drag her into a waiting limo. Abducted and held hostage, she's drugged by her captors who are trying to get the mysterious disc.


As the story unfolds, Hattie Crumford finds herself embroiled in an international drug trafficking ring. Everything hinges on the man with the sand dollar face.
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