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Frankie Y. Bailey | Character Dating Profile: Detective Hannah McCabe

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User Profile Name:
β€œLast Seen Wearing”

Location:
Upstate New York

Gender:
Female

Race:
Biracial (Black/White)

Age:
34

Education:
4 years college (English and Psychology)

Status:
Never married, No children

Seeking:
Male (30-45)
5’9” or above
Race unimportant
Never married, divorced, or widowed
College education
Politically middle-of-the-road to liberal

Interested in:
Casual Dating
Possible Long-term Relationship

About Me:
A lot of my life is spent helping people who are going through difficult situations. That’s my job, and I love what I do. I would like to meet a man who also loves his work. I’m the cautious type, so I don’t want to rush into a relationship. But if we are compatible, I am willing to work at building something good and lasting. Family and friends are important to me, and I hope they are to you as well. If you’re interested, let’s meet and talk and see where it goes. If we discover we can laugh together, that’s a good start.

Interests:
Dog training (recently acquired Great Dane mix), movies (particularly classics and film noir), jazz and other music, reading, conversation (grew up in a household with parents who talked about politics, social issues, and everything else), robotics (brother is a scientist), travel (would love to do more)

Turn-offs:
Cruelty, bigotry, deception

Turn-ons:
Candor, compassion, curiosity, a sense of humor

Choices:
Morning or night – morning
Beach or mountains – mountains
Summer or winter – winter
Elvis or Space Rock – Elvis
Museum or drag race – museum
B &B or hotel – hotel
Tango or waltz – waltz
Tennis or golf – tennis
Poker or chess – chess
Football or basketball – basketball

What really scares you?
Spiders and roaches

On your bucket list?
A cruise along the Nile, a week in Paris, singing (badly) in a musical, reading all of Moby Dick, spending a day dressed as a clown and being silly, making a perfect pineapple upside down cake, saving the planet

Perfect first date:
Conversation over coffee or a walk in the park with our dogs

Note from the Author
The men currently in Detective Hannah McCabe’s life who are unattached but not on her list of possible romantic partners:

Mike Baxter – her rookie partner of four months, a recent transfer to her unit
Ted Thornton – billionaire industrialist/adventurer, suspect in murder case
Sean Pettigrew – long-time friend and colleague, still hung up on ex- wife

About Frankie Y. Bailey

Criminologist Frankie Bailey has five books and two published short stories in a mystery series featuring crime historian Lizzie Stuart. THE RED QUEEN DIES, the first book in a near-future police procedural series featuring Detective Hannah McCabe, came out in September, 2013. The second book in the series, What the Fly Saw is due out in March 2015. Frankie is a former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America and a past president of Sisters in Crime. Website | Twitter

About WHAT THE FLY SAW

Frankie Bailey introduced readers to an exciting new protagonist in THE RED QUEEN DIES, the first book in the Detective Hannah McCabe mystery series. Now in WHAT THE FLY SAW, Hannah and her partner Mike Baxter are back with an even more puzzling case. Albany, New York, January 2020 The morning after a blizzard that shut down the city, funeral director Kevin Novak is found dead in the basement of his funeral home. The arrow sticking out of his chest came from his own hunting bow.

A loving husband and father and an active member of a local megachurch, Novak
has no
known enemies. His family and friends say he was depressed because his best
friend died
suddenly of a heart attack and Novak blamed himself. But what does his guilt
have to do
with his death? Maybe nothing, maybe a lot. The minister of the megachurch and
the
psychiatrist who provides counseling to church membersβ€”do either of them know
more than
they are saying?

Detective Hannah McCabe and her partner, Mike Baxter, sort through lies and evasions to solve the riddle of Novak’s death, while unanswered questions from another high-profile case, and McCabe’s own suspicions make for a dynamite crime novel.

Comments

1 comment posted.

Re: Frankie Y. Bailey | Character Dating Profile: Detective Hannah McCabe

This is a very interesting story line, and I can't say that I've ever seen anything close to it. It has me intrigued enough to want to read the book, even though I missed the first book in the series. Crime novels rate right up there in my book, along with mysteries, and I'm looking forward to finding out how the story plays out!! Congratulations on your latest book, and I'm sure that it's going to do well.
(Peggy Roberson 10:56am August 17, 2015)

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