CRUEL POETRY - Softcover

?Frighteningly close to perfection? Allan Guthrie, author of Hard Man ?No one writes better about white trash gone bad than Hendricks... Guaranteed to raise your temperature, whatever the weather? Guardian ?Tauntingly playful and consistently raunchy, Hendricks has blazed down a path all her own... Chandler, Hammett and Cain might be shocked at such manoeuvres. But Hendricks is their first true female equivalent? Independent on Sunday ?The toughest female writer of noir novels on the block... it is an adrenaline-drenched love story for those who like to walk on the wild side? Sunday Express "No one writes like Vicki Hendricks about sweaty lust in the sun, amoral and aimless characters and accidental murders in Miami motel rooms and swamps. Truly the Queen of Florida noir erotica." Maxim Jakubowski ?There

s an enormous amount of damn fine sex to enjoy in Vicki Hendricks (take on the folie a deux - mad passionate beach-front lust, extended from two to three to five people, via many litres of vodka, some entertaining sexual practices, a few murders and an ever-welcome python. The women ? and Renata)

's men ? driven by fear, desire, and any number of killings, let loose enough blood to turn the Everglades red. Finally, a Thelma and Louise with the guts to stay alive? Stella Duffy

Renata is young, beautiful, and has sex for money and kicks. Few are immune to her intoxicating allure ? even her pet Burmese python, Pepe, seems captive to her charm. Richard is one of her clients, a poetry professor with a wife and two sons, whose erotic fascination with Rennie is threatening his home and job. Meanwhile, Julie, a shy wannabe-novelist, spies on Rennie from her room next door in between bouts of frustrated writing. Both would do anything to save Rennie from her dangerous occupation and become her one true love. Narrated by these three characters, Cruel Poetry is a gripping story of fatal attraction, energized by scenes of high-voltage sex and suspense. Against contrasting backdrops ? Miami?s gaudy vacationland, the haunting atmosphere of the Everglades, and later the onslaught of a hurricane ? Vicki Hendricks captures the Florida behind the postcards. As the lives of Richard and Julie unravel amidst drugs and murder, Hendricks amps the adrenaline jolts and sweeps us to a bittersweet climax.