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Dark Streets, Cold Suburbs

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Sometimes home is the most dangerous place of all.

In a heart-pounding mystery featuring apprentice PI Willa Pennington, a long-standing cold case turns hot in a hurry.

People move to the suburbs for a better life—nice houses, good schools, safe communities. But there's no place you can go that's completely safe from danger. Willa Pennington knows this all too well after her first PI case almost got her killed. Helping her old mentor review a decades-old cold case seems much safer. Then she reaches out to a teenager in trouble, and suddenly a new case rips into Willa's life in a way she could never have predicted. It seems menace is always lying in wait behind someone's door. Especially on the dark streets of the cold suburbs.

Praise for Dark Streets, Cold Suburbs:

"This one's a keeper, and that means the entire series. From the conflicted protagonist, to the neatly twisted and well-placed plotting, I couldn't put the book down."—Kingdom Books

Praise for What Doesn't Kill You, Book 1 of the Willa Pennington, PI Mystery Series:

A 2019 Lefty Award Nominee

A 2018 Agatha Award Nominee for Best First Novel

"Tight plotting, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and a protagonist in PI Willa Pennington you'll want to read about again and again. I couldn't put this book down."—Maggie Barbieri, author of Once Upon a Lie

"A debut that saddles tough-girl noir with the heart of a cozy."—Kirkus Reviews

"This is a solid beginning to a character and setting that could go on to very good things."—RT Book Reviews

"Aimee Hix is an up-and-coming author everyone should watch."—Crimespree Magazine

"The book has plenty of twists and surprises, but what stands out is the tight writing and fast narrative of the author's debut novel."—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

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      November 1, 2018
      Ex-cop Willa Pennington (What Doesn't Kill You, 2018) continues her quest to earn her private investigator's license.Angry that her dad has sent her on a phony stakeout to teach her the ropes, Willa lashes out at everyone in sight, including her beau, Seth Anderson, who promptly disappears on a secret mission for the government. At the mixed martial arts class she takes to relax, she meets Aja, a high schooler who's being stalked by an ex-boyfriend. While helping her, Willa also gets a call from Jan Boyd, a cop friend who asks her to reinvestigate a cold case: the death of Amanda Veitch, who died 17 years ago from blunt force trauma. Although the two cases ought to keep Willa pretty busy, her true vocation is reliving past traumas: her abandonment as a child by her mother; the death of her best friend; and her recent brush with death in a fire set by a neo-Nazi maniac. Nightmares, cold sweats, and endless rehashings of the past compete with heroic action sequences. Willa wonders why today is "Make Willa Deal with Uncomfortable Emotions Day." Readers will wonder why practically every day is Make Willa Deal with Uncomfortable Emotions Day.Hix seems lost in uncharted territory as she forges her way into hard-boiled emo. What doesn't kill you seems to leave you angry, volatile, and slightly unhinged.

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