Writing Stories That Leave a Lasting Impression
I am A Published Novelist Developing My Second
Book With Compelling, Suspenseful Storytelling
About Me
Diane Dickinson grew up in Oceanside, California. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Houston. She worked for two Houston area newspapers as a news reporter, and news editor. She was a freelance writer until a friend encouraged her to become a realtor, a career that led her to write her debut novel.
MURDER, MONEY & REAL ESTATE
Lara Maxwell, a promising, yet naive realtor in Houston's number one boutique real estate company, Drake Properties, is suddenly thrust into the darker side of success when she finds her preeminent broker shot dead following a public open house. The murder propels Lara into Houston real estate's full-throttle underworld of sex, drugs, and explosively spiraling secrets.
No one at Drake Properties is beyond suspicion, including Lara, as Houston police detectives dig into the lies, jealousies and twisted relationships that lie beneath the surface of the firm.
When detectives determine that Lara is innocent, they convince her to assist them as a mole in her office. Determined to live up to the trust the detectives have put in her, she dives headfirst into her new role. The deeper she probes, the darker the world around her becomes. Secrets are exposed that not only involve the entire office staff, but her best friend as well as her current boyfriend.
Lara has a secret of her own that ultimately leads to a deadly confrontation with the unhinged killer
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Final Transaction is a fast-paced take on how human relationships, if held together by closeted behavior, can lead to lethal consequences.
