Hell Hot the novel

Hell Hot is not your average boring mystery book. If you are one who enjoys watching paint dry, it probably isn't for you. You should find it a fast read that flows and is full of action. This is a story about a woman with extraordinary skills in locating missing persons. Persistence is one of those skills. Cora Lee will not give up. But when she goes to Washington Cora Lee finds nothing to solve her two cases, a young man of 18 and a young woman serving an internship for a particular Congressman. Although the case becomes an international sensation with investigative reporters digging up salacious circumstances, none of it can penetrate the D.C. fortress of protecting it's own. Cora Lee got her answers. That is, all but the one she needed. Who was the brain power at the top? Afterwords she realizes the failure but it's too late. All she has is a name that goes nowhere. She turns to the Mossad for help. That ends against a wall, not a brick wall like she has been running into, but a wall non-the-less. As if life at the moment isn't cruel enough, her cop friend comes pleading a request that she help with the serial killer. Then he questions about her involvement with the disappearance of her stalker. Cora Lee brings home a girl, a refugee from the Mexican brothel and soon thinks maybe she bit off too much this time. Cora Lee relents to her cop friend and participates in the recovery of the serial killer's victims. She has to match wits with the killer every step of the way. This event does have a noted surprise. Cora Lee takes up her bag of clues and heads south. First to the Dominican Republic where she finds a feeling in her gut that takes her on to Venezuela. There she digs out another clue that takes her to the island of Grenada where she stares down the wrong end of a gun barrel. While in Venezuela see learns that she is wanted by the cops back home. Cora Lee now has to devise a way back into the US.