Here Lies a Brazen Woman: A Booker Krane Mystery

When a friend of innkeeper Roxanna Larkspur, and a current guest at the inn, is discovered strangled in bed, Booker Krane wants to assist in finding the killer. But Lorraine, the victim, is daughter to a former Texas senator, still a powerful force in Austin, and Masonville's mayor instructs both Booker and the sheriff to butt out, preferring to have her own police chief investigate.
Police Chief Josephine Zanders has no experience in solving a murder case, so she deputizes Booker as an "An...