Without looking back, casting a bad marriage and going-nowhere stage career behind her, forty-something Sheila Mackenzie, nee Ryan, took a younger lover, discovered crime, embraced danger, and reinvented herself under an alias in a.k.a. Sheila Doyle. Sheila returns for another excursion into south Florida's steamy underworld as she insinuates herself into a ring of high-priced prostitutes pimped by the formidably lesbian crime queen Angel Scot. Or Angela Scarpetti; or the White Witch, as she is more familiarly and fearfully known.
It's the promise of easy money - a cool half mil - that prompts Sheila and her magnetic Cherokee lover Bobby Squared to hook up with their old friend Sol Bilstein and a flamboyantly gay black hairdresser named Sampson de la Plaine (he was born Reginald Johnson), for a sure-fire heist that very quickly goes very bad. For the merciless Angel doesn't take kindly to getting burnt, or robbed, and enlisting the aid of her chauffeur Barry the Bear, an Orthodox Jewish mameleh's boy with a penchant for violence, she sets out to torment the perpetrators. Indeed, at the very moment Sol and company are divvying up the take, Angel and her Neanderthal hit man throw them a vicious, totally unexpected curveball that reduces even a hardened, cold Sheila Weinstein to tears.
Genre: Mystery
It's the promise of easy money - a cool half mil - that prompts Sheila and her magnetic Cherokee lover Bobby Squared to hook up with their old friend Sol Bilstein and a flamboyantly gay black hairdresser named Sampson de la Plaine (he was born Reginald Johnson), for a sure-fire heist that very quickly goes very bad. For the merciless Angel doesn't take kindly to getting burnt, or robbed, and enlisting the aid of her chauffeur Barry the Bear, an Orthodox Jewish mameleh's boy with a penchant for violence, she sets out to torment the perpetrators. Indeed, at the very moment Sol and company are divvying up the take, Angel and her Neanderthal hit man throw them a vicious, totally unexpected curveball that reduces even a hardened, cold Sheila Weinstein to tears.
Genre: Mystery
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