GD Baum
Private Investigator Lock Tourmaline is a fast-talking, witty former New Jersey cop with extraordinary martial arts expertise. In Point and Shoot; A Lock Tourmaline Mystery, Lock is hired as a bodyguard to protect a Korean drug lord who is later assassinated. In the midst of solving this murder mystery, Lock struggles to extricate his ex-wife from her dangerous entanglement with both a corrupt lover and an addiction to cocaine. At the same time, the woman he now loves succumbs slowly to terminal cancer, and her fifteen-year-old daughter sinks deeper into suicidal depression. An amalgamation of an enthralling murder mystery, a hard-edged love story and meticulously fashioned protagonists, Point and Shoot is sure to please even the most hard-boiled reader of the private eye genre. Web site.