"Greg Herren takes us on a fabulous ride through the mighty real world of New Orleans high fashion. A design maven ends up dead and when a drag queen in training is implicated by her own make-up bag, it takes a queen to stop a queen! A first-rate launch of a drag queen mystery series we need now more than ever." —Alison Gaylin, Edgar-winning author of "If I Die Tonight" and "The Collective" on Herren's previous Killer Queen Mystery "Death Drop"

"Greg Herren takes us on a fabulous ride through the mighty real world of New Orleans high fashion. A design maven ends up dead and when a drag queen in training is implicated by her own make-up bag, it takes a queen to stop a queen! A first-rate launch of a drag queen mystery series we need now more than ever." —Alison Gaylin, Edgar-winning author of "If I Die Tonight" and "The Collective" on Herren's previous Killer Queen Mystery "Death Drop"

"Makeup artist James "Jem" Richard might honestly believe that Marignyt Orloff is committing crimes against fashion with her ill-fitting couture gowns, but that doesn't mean he wanted to kill her. It turns out, however, that someone else did want Marigny dead. This becomes evident when Jem discovers Marigny's body the day after her latest runway show, which featured drag queen  models styled by Jem, who was also pressed into service as a last minute model. Now, in between remembering snatches of conversations he overheard at the fashion show and suddenly becoming the target of Marigny's killer, Jem has no choice but to do some investigating of his own, unle3ss he wants his next death drop to be permanent. Personal dramas play out among the engaging cast of characters concocted by award-winning Herren. Readers who enjoy crime fiction with a vividly evoked setting and an entertaining story frame will find this series launch to be the perfect literary lagniappe."—Library Journal on Herren's previous Killer Queen mystery "Death Drop

"With smart, tart writing and a pearl-clutching climax, Lambda Literary Award winner Greg Herren launches the sparkling new Killer Queen Mystery series from Golden Notebook Press. If you like your mysteries served up with a dollop of drama (queen) and on helluva twist (lime, with a tequila chaser)—Death Drop is the book for you!"—Wendy Cross Staub, New York Times bestselling author, on Herren's previous Killer Queen mystery "Death Drop"

Greg Herren is a New Orleans-based author and editor. He is co-founder of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, which takes place in New Orleans every spring. He is the author "Death Drop," the first in the drag queen mystery Killer Queen series also published by Golden Notebook Press. He is also the author of thirty-three other novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winning Murder in the Rue Chartres, called by the New Orleans Times-Picayune "the most honest depiction of life in poet-Katrina New Orleans published thus far." He co-edited Bourbon Street: Reflections on New Orleans which also won the Lambda Literary Award. His young adult novel Sleeping Angel won the Moonbeam Gold Medal for Excellence in Young Adult Mystery/Horror, and Lake Thirteen won the silver. He co-edited Night Shadows: Queer Horror, which was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award.