Dave Gehrke

Deadly Forever Dave Gehrke

Cookie O'Shaughnessy has everything an adventurous young lady might want; a modest stock portfolio, a semi-legal Mercedes, an ownership stake in a mostly-legal hamburger chain, a wad of cash the IRS doesn't know about and a private detective's license. What she doesn't have is a steady boyfriend or any clients with adrenalin-pumping, danger-laden, gut-twisting cases. The kind of cases she lives for. But when it rains, it pours. And suddenly, right between hair coloring experiments, the formerly bored Cookie is hired to do what she does best, go undercover. First by a helpless rape victim being stalked by her attacker, then by a local Godfather who may or may not have turned over a new leaf and finally by the FBI on the trail of an international assassin. Now the big question was whether the former vice cop was in over her latest hair color with crooked cops, mobsters, FBI agents that didn't completely trust her, secret agents, hit men and rapists. To solve all three cases, O'Shaughnessy is forced to do something she's always tried to avoid; rely on others. And along the way she discovers a talent she never thought she possessed; leadership.