Review
Tai Randolph doesn't set out to be a detective, but she cannot help her insatiable curiosity, her need to know the truth, and her penchant for finding trouble. The opening of Whittle’s first novel finds Tai in the wrong place at the wrong time—specifically, in the driveway of her brother's Atlanta house, where she has just discovered a dead body—and that sets her off on an adventure that leads her through some interesting twists and turns.
Having recently inherited a gun shop, she is no stranger to firearms. The irony is that she has no license to carry yet, so she cannot use any of them for protection. But her brother Eric, who is absent for much of the novel, tries to take care of that problem by assigning her a bodyguard from the security firm where he works. That bodyguard is Trey Seaver, who is unlike anybody Tai has have...
Beyond the Book
Traumatic Brain Injury
Tai's fellow investigator and sometimes-bodyguard, Trey Seaver, is coping with the cognitive changes resulting from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) that he received in a car accident which damaged his frontal lobe. While he has no lasting motor skill injuries, he is unable to display a normal range of emotions, and can be "triggered" into a violent state when threatened. In addition, while his memory of recent events has improved (in fact his memory seems to be near-eidetic), he often cannot think of a particular word, and has trouble remembering anything before the accident, including his own personality. The upside of the accident is that he has developed a new talent - the ability to read people's body language and know whether or not they...
