Sweet and Lowdown

Fresh on the success of One O'Clock Jump, Lise McClendon serves up another slice of historical noir. Sweet and Lowdown, second in the World War II era Kansas City mysteries featuring female private eye Dorie Lennox, offers an atmospheric look at the autumn of 1940 and a bad little rich girl in this homage to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep. Europe is at war. Willkie is giving Roosevelt a run for his money. Dorie and her partner Amos are trying to keep the blonde and beautiful Thalia Hines from destroying herself. But then someone attempts to kidnap Thalia and a man is murdered. Like The Big Sleep, another mystery surfaces.... Sweet and Lowdown is a historical mystery full of darkness and the peculiar heartache of the wayward child a story that will stay with the reader long after the book is closed.