Years ago, long before the girl power, Black Girl Magic and the Me-Too movements, I watched Angela Jolie in the movie Laura Croft Tomb Raider. I was in love with movies again. I thought. Wow! Finally, an attractive woman in a lead role where she carries everything. She played the role of an adventurer, normally inhabited by a man. Think Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones series or Nicholas Cage in the National Treasure series, both men played adventurer roles. Their movies were quite popular with moviegoers.
While watching Tomb Raider, years later, I thought to myself. How come there aren’t more action movies like this with women or minorities in main roles? Why aren’t they the stars of show? Is it because nobody would pay to see movies like this? Then I thought. I’d go see it. I bet I could find plenty of other folks would too.
I decided I’d write a series of books about a Black lesbian with code name Dutch Chocolate. She has a background in NYPD as a sergeant in East Harlem, before joining the army and going to the Middle East to work in Intel. She returns to work in one of NYPD’s specialized street crime units. Dutch eventually decides to become a PI working for her people in Harlem. Over the years, she attracts a group of law enforcement misfits who have become her loyal crew and family. Dutch Chocolate stories include them as well.
In this ninth novel, Vita Kane a top-notch NYPD Administrative Assistant simply disappears from her Harlem apartment. She requests a leave of absence for an unspecified time and abruptly leaves the city. While she has many friends, she told one person where she was going. That one friend is her cousin Carlotta Ford-Benjamin who is also Dutch’s cousin-in-law and dear friend. A new friend Rookie Detective Tanya Dodge makes it her business to find Vita is and discover why she left town. Her newly honed detective skills are put to the test in her search for Vita Kane. My novel also takes another look at Dutch’s home in Wickwire, NY.
I had so much fun writing the series. I hope you’ll enjoy reading the ninth novel of the Dutch Chocolate Series, Dutch Chocolate9: Where is Vita Louise Kane? as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Dutch Chocolate9: Where is Vita Louise Kane? Is available for order.
Here are the links for: Dutch Chocolate9: Where is Vita Louise Kane?
Kindle USA: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DDJGHF3K
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0DDJGHF3K
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Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/irTI4_QB6Yc
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