About Sketch of A Murder:
The Avenger targets prominent, wealthy men accused of sexual crimes, for a gruesome death. The Special Crimes Team is formed to catch a killer who has eluded three police departments. Hot tempered Sergeant Nita Slowater, assigned as the second-in-command of the Special Crimes Team, immediately clashes with her superior, Lieutenant Michael Williams, a man known to bend the rules. The two of them with four other independent, misfit cops must stop The Avenger. Can these disparate people work together? When The Avenger decides to communicate through Dawn Samira, Nita is given the job of liaison with the pushy, lesbian reporter. But, recently a reporter got her best friend killed, and Nita’s in no mood to play nice. The only bright spot in Nita’s life is her unlikely friendship with a homeless, black artist, Molly the Pack Lady. Unknown to anyone the key to the killer’s identity lies within the pages of Molly’s sketchpad. Will Nita find the key before an innocent man becomes The Avenger’s next victim?
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Aya hails from a tradition of oral storytellers. With her grandparents’ intervention, Aya learned to read and write by age 6. She penciled her first story and joined the honored tradition of her mother and grandmother.
Though Aya’s first priority is to entertain, she is also dedicated to portraying women–in the words of Nora Ephron–“as complicated and interesting as women are”; her protagonists are women who change their worlds.
“It is time for media, including literature, to accept that women are complex, strong, brave, heroic, and capable of being the rescuers, rather than always being the damsel-in-distress or the Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl,” Aya says.
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