The Oakland Hills Vodou Murders

Murder in the Oakland Hills

Mystery & Suspense
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Author: Glen C. Carrington ISBN: 9781468522167
Publisher: AuthorHouse Publication: December 28, 2005
Imprint: AuthorHouse Language: English
Author: Glen C. Carrington
ISBN: 9781468522167
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Publication: December 28, 2005
Imprint: AuthorHouse
Language: English

The novel is about the murder of Hillary Chatham Dillard, an interracial co-ed at an affluent college campus in Californias Oakland Hills.The body, covered in duck feathers with a majestic mallard duck head protruding from her mouth, was discovered after an annual alumni affair.Was it voodoo or as pronounced in Caribbean slangvodou?

The main character, retired Detective Bill Lincoln, entered the case after a three-month unsuccessful police investigation.Detective Lincoln, a straight shooter, never discloses his political and social allegiances.He clings to the high road, but under relentless grinding pressure, will bend the rules back whereby they may snap!Hes a realistknowing that true idealism can have you night swimming in the San Francisco Bay with a concrete ankle brace.

Detective Lincoln delves into the quirks and quagmires of suspects with monetary and social affluence, alleged Mafia connections, local explosive politics, and the necromantic elements of voodoo.Two voodoo practitioners provide conflicting opinions.Which one, if either, speaks the truth?And, theres the memorable Lenny, the Detectives helper whos been hospitalized for twenty years due tocomplete short-term memory loss and follows any command ordered by his superior.

The affluent Dillard family demand to know their daughters murderer.They have three remaining children: the eldest, Franklin Jr., is running for high political office; Monique, a design engineer, is stunning and; Radcliffe, the youngest, is a ladies man with neither career ambitions nor job supporting his lavish lifestyle.

The landscape is the beautiful hills of Oakland California where the affluent and powerful sit ruling their flat land subjects to the murky crevices and dark corners of the New Orleans bayou.It is here where superstition supersedes reality and having a gun may not be enough!

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The novel is about the murder of Hillary Chatham Dillard, an interracial co-ed at an affluent college campus in Californias Oakland Hills.The body, covered in duck feathers with a majestic mallard duck head protruding from her mouth, was discovered after an annual alumni affair.Was it voodoo or as pronounced in Caribbean slangvodou?

The main character, retired Detective Bill Lincoln, entered the case after a three-month unsuccessful police investigation.Detective Lincoln, a straight shooter, never discloses his political and social allegiances.He clings to the high road, but under relentless grinding pressure, will bend the rules back whereby they may snap!Hes a realistknowing that true idealism can have you night swimming in the San Francisco Bay with a concrete ankle brace.

Detective Lincoln delves into the quirks and quagmires of suspects with monetary and social affluence, alleged Mafia connections, local explosive politics, and the necromantic elements of voodoo.Two voodoo practitioners provide conflicting opinions.Which one, if either, speaks the truth?And, theres the memorable Lenny, the Detectives helper whos been hospitalized for twenty years due tocomplete short-term memory loss and follows any command ordered by his superior.

The affluent Dillard family demand to know their daughters murderer.They have three remaining children: the eldest, Franklin Jr., is running for high political office; Monique, a design engineer, is stunning and; Radcliffe, the youngest, is a ladies man with neither career ambitions nor job supporting his lavish lifestyle.

The landscape is the beautiful hills of Oakland California where the affluent and powerful sit ruling their flat land subjects to the murky crevices and dark corners of the New Orleans bayou.It is here where superstition supersedes reality and having a gun may not be enough!

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