Pool of Blood

: Introduces Alex as Cincinnati's first Black female detective. : Deals with the murder of a young woman by a local drug distributor. Alex solves a fifteen year old abduction cold case : Alex's work with the DEA has a Mexican Drug cartel boss attacking her. : Alex is targeted to be killed by a racist. : A local priest and his licentious behavior give Alex a new perspective of crime. Alex is hired to root out the bad members of the Chicago Police. : An organization that is killing young women is eliminated by Alex and team. : On vacation Alex is asked to help a case involving a serial killer. : A demented person kills individuals and buries them along the Canadian Border. These are the cases that Cincinnati's first black female detective, Alex Evercrest, with her dedicated team solve. Her extraordinary skills both physically and with her weapon, and the strong support of her detective team members is the "force" that is her armor. Her unwavering belief that she, "treat others the way she wishes to be treated," guides her. The look of astonishment in his eyes, the blood pulsing like a fire hose from the veins in his neck, the feel of the blood hitting my face put huge grin across it. The eyes glazed over as life left the body. I dropped it into the wire basket and the water from the stream swept the now weakly pulsing blood into the pool thirty feet below. I jumped off the pinnacle boulder and sank to the bottom of the pool. I was in a heaven. I swam in a pink pool of cool water under the full moon over Maui. He was the first and many more would follow. I had found my calling. I knew that I was insane but now I was fulfilled. Alex looked forward to build heartfelt memories with her soul mate. She shared her early memories of watching the sunrise from Mt Haleakalā, driving the road to Hana, driving the road around West Maui Forest Reserve, snorkeling and going out on a whale watch. Toward the end of her vacation is once again brought back into the detective world as two Maui detectives introduce themselves and ask for her help in solving a string of missing person cases that appears to be accelerating. She cringed internally as she was asked for her help in solving a string of missing person cases that appeared to be accelerating. Alex realizes that vacation has taken a turn that she must follow. She calls on Johnnie to do his online sleuthing and asks him to work one of his miracles. Once again he provides the information that reveals who the perpetrator might be. Alex and her two Maui back up detectives catch the pool of blood swimmer just before he kills the next victim.