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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 8

I know that my boyfriend, Cortez Williams, will say I’m crazy. But he’s in a medically induced coma at USC General Hospital and ...

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Mas Arai’s Last Mystery: Interview with Naomi Hirahara

“I [accepted a] writing fellowship in Kansas to focus on the novel that I had been working on for years. When I returned to LA ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 7

I press the buzzer by the door of a small brick building. The door immediately opens, as if Father Kwame is expecting us. He greets ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 6

I’ve only said I love you to two men—well, other than my dad and he doesn’t really count. One of them was ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 5

You can get the wrong idea from TV police shows. Officers discharge their weapons multiple times in every episode, when the truth is, most of ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 4

It’s past midnight and someone’s turning the key to my double-lock on my front door. I know who it is and even Shippo ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 3

My cheeks are still a bit flushed from the beer from the Far Bar, but I make sure that I’m fully sober before getting ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 2

“You’ll have to leave the premises,” I tell my best friend Nay Pram as I direct people away from the dead body covered in ...

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Trouble on Temple Street: An Officer Ellie Rush Mystery

Chapter 1

“I just don’t get it,” I say to my partner, Johnny Mayhew, in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center. We are both on ...

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As You Like It

Chapter Twelve—Get Back in There

Six months later In Japan, it was all about family and your family name. That’s why men were adopted into families that had no ...