The novel is about the murder of Hillary Chatham Dillard, an interracial co-ed at an affluent college campus in California’s 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 slang…vodou?
The main character, retired Detective 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! He’s a realist…knowing that true idealism can have you night swimming in the San Francisco Bahy with a concrete ankle brace.
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