When is justice really served?Against all odds, Bobbi Logan, a statuesque transgender woman, has become one of Chicago’s most celebrated hairstylists and the owner of one of the city’s poshest salons. She is finally comfortable with who she is, widely admired in her community, about to enjoy the success she deserves. Then her impossibly perfect life falls apart.In the space of a few weeks, the … apart.
In the space of a few weeks, the Great Recession drags her business to the brink of failure, her beloved ex-wife needs help in facing a terrible tragedy, and a hateful police detective storms back into her life, determined to convict her of the five-year-old murder of John Strand—pillar of the community . . . and a sexual predator.
As the detective builds an ever more convincing case against her, both of them will be shaken by revelations—about themselves, about their own deeply held secrets, and about the bizarre ritual murder of John Strand.
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Like all of James’s books, this one moves the reader in ways other books can’t. The naked honesty about living life as a transgender person who struggles to climb the ranks of success is difficult to swallow in this deftly-crafted thriller, but reeks of a truthful addiction that you can’t put down. Rarely do books move me in the way that this one did, but it is so warm and funny, yet violent and raw, that you can’t look stop turning the pages. Glad I found this all-heart-and-soul writer.
Bobbi Logan is a 43-year-old transgender woman who has become a high-class hairstylist running a successful salon. But it’s all comes crashing down when a detective says she killed a guy 5 years ago.
Bobbi is a character I feel many will connect with, she is full of wit and compassion even at the worst of times. All she wants is what we all want-to love, have a family, a business and left alone to live her life. Unfortunately, there are those out there who will not allow her this peace. Made even more complicated with a Trans-phobia Detective stalking her. It’s an interesting book that sheds some light of life being a trans-woman in a society and friend circle that wasn’t ready yet to fully embrace her new identity.
I don’t wish to spoil the story, all I can say is, read the book!
I love that it is a story about a person who happens to be transgender. Not just a trangender story.
Really enjoyed this book! Great characters. Interesting look in the transgender community. A bit of a thriller too.
An interesting book overall. I’m glad I tried it out.
Renee Jame’s brilliant Bobbi Logan series will truly put you into the shoes of the transgender experience in Chicago. The experience is deep, heartfelt, brutally honest, and evoke a myriad of emotions in the reader. Joy, excitement, sympathy, fear, anger, sadness, hope, empathy, love, awe, inspiration… I could go on and on about the emotions it evoked in me!
I can completely envision this intense series into a fantastic movie or television series. These books are extremely important in understanding the transgender issues that have been and are at hand. It may be shocking for the reader, but it needs to be known these things can and do happen. And at this terrible time in our politically divided world, Bobbi Logan is a true heroine. Renee James is a true heroine. Her talented and poetic writing style engulfs the reader into a life-changing journey. She has enhanced my knowledge of the transgender experience and I am ever grateful.
The audience for these books does not need to read them in sequence. In my opinion, it creates a deeper bond between the reader and Bobbi Logan to read the series through, but it is not a must. Renee James is utterly brilliant in creating understanding of events, both past and present. The education she provides through her awe-inspiring writing is desperately needed in our world.
To the negative reviewers:
If you don’t like this series, odds are you are simply squeamish about brutally honest murder thrillers, or you sadly live with hate in your heart! If you are part of the latter group, I especially suggest you read the series from beginning to end and learn from it.
I highly recommend everyone to read the Bobbi Logan Series:
Book 1: Coming Out Can Be Murder was published in 2012. It featured Bobbi Logan, a transsexual heroine, and it introduced many non-trans people to what transgender life was like early in this century. It won awards from the Chicago Writers Association and ForeWord Reviews, and was republished in 2014 with a plot change as Transition to Murder.
Book 2: The second book in the series was issued by Oceanview Publishing in 2016. A Kind of Justice picked up Bobbi’s life five years later, in 2008 as she battled the Great Recession and a transphobic detective trying to pin a murder on her.
Book 3: Seven Suspects will be released on Oct. 3rd, 2017. I takes place another five years later, with Bobbi trying to mentor her pre-teen niece and find out who is stalking her and why.
A Kind of Justice is part of a series about a transgender hair stylist in Chicago.
It’s an okay story, not very realistic.