Dangerous Intent: A Nichelle Clarke Crime Thriller

**FROM AMAZON CHARTS BESTSELLING AUTHOR LYNDEE WALKER**

Missing teenagers and execution-style murders vie for crime reporter Nichelle Clarke's attention as she chases the stories into a web of intrigue and danger, determined to discover the truth at any cost.

Nichelle Clarke owes her boss a big headline. She gets her lucky break when a member of a notorious hate group is found with a bullet in his head, his body dumped in the woods. But then a boy from a local LGBTQ support group goes missing, and Nichelle can't turn away from an old friend's plea for help finding him.

Police across the state are reluctant to expend dwindling resources on runaways and murdered bigots, leaving Nichelle to take the investigations into her own hands. The number of missing teenagers climbs. Meanwhile, more dead bodies point to a ruthless serial killer with prejudice in his sights. As clues and dead ends pile up in nearly equal numbers and other reporters pick up the trail, the situation quickly spirals out of Nichelle's control.

The killer is a master at covering their tracks, and they won't stop until they've passed deadly judgment on every last bigot in the state.

Nichelle will fight her way through communities swallowed by fear to save lives.unless she loses her own in the process.

A murder mystery series taut with gripping, authentic plots that only a former crime reporter could write.

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What readers are saying:

"Fabulous!"
"...amazing..."
"...suspenseful..."
"...hit me in all of the feels."
"...a fast paced, phenomenal read."



About the Author
LynDee Walker is the national bestselling author of two crime fiction series featuring strong heroines and "twisty, absorbing" mysteries. Her first Nichelle Clarke crime thriller, FRONT PAGE FATALITY, was nominated for the Agatha Award for best first novel and is an Amazon Charts Best- seller. In 2018, she introduced readers to Texas Ranger Faith McClellan in FEAR NO TRUTH. Reviews have praised her work as "well-crafted, compelling, and fast-paced," and "an edge-of-your-seat ride" with "a spider web of twists and turns that will keep you reading until the end."Before she started writing fiction, LynDee was an award-winning jour- nalist who covered everything from ribbon cuttings to high level police corruption, and worked closely with the various law enforcement agencies that she reported on. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the U.S.Aside from books, LynDee loves her family, her readers, travel, and coffee. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she is working on her next novel when she's not juggling laundry and children's sports schedules.Laura Muse is a software engineer. She spends her free time reading books, reviewing books, photographing books, and promoting books on social media. Thanks to her past life as a competitive barista and barista trainer, she has developed a refined palette for both coffee and wine and spends weekends visiting small vineyards throughout Virginia with her family. She lives by a river in northern Virginia with her diabetic cat, Hero. DANGEROUS INTENT is her first published work.