Blades Overstreet, a black ex-NYPD cop obligates himself to a gorgeous soap star, appropriately named Precious, as a favor to Jimmy Lucas, the man who had saved his life. Precious wants to know the identity of her father and someone is willing to tell her who he is for $50,000, so Blades offers his protective services to assist her with this transaction. When they both find their contact, who unbeknownst to them is an ex-FBI agent, dead in his apartment, Blades realizes that this small favor has turned into one huge mess. And if things couldn’t get worse for Blades, Precious is found dead in his apartment. How will Blades clear his name? Who killed Precious and why? Most importantly, who was Precious father?

I recommend this book to my brother, my daddy, and any man, who shies from reading. I recommend this book to any woman wanting to know the intricacies of the African-American male psyche. I recommend this book to anyone who just wants a really good read. This book is off the chisel.

This novel will have you up all night trying to get to the truth. You will not skip to the back of the book to find out, because each chapter is so interwoven into the end and so well written you will not want to miss a clue or a thought. Blades is the hero of the twenty-first century, and I hope they make this novel into a movie. Look what Devil in a Blue Dress did for Walter Mosley’s Easy Rowlins.

This past year I decided to take a deeper look at the crime fiction genre. After reading Glenville Lovell’s Too Beautiful to Die I’ve fallen in love with it. At first I thought it was my penchant for bad guys gone good with harboring bad tendency issues that drew me into detective novels. You know the Axel Foley, Shaft, or Easy Rowlins kind of fellow. While reading this book for the second time, however, I found brilliance to Lovell’s work and a greater respect for the genre.

Thrilled and sexy.

Glenville Lovell

Lovell builds a bombshell of a who-done-it, and at the same time enlightens the reader about Caribbean American Immigration History, a subject matter that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves.

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