The Bellingham and Gutierrez Crime Series

Gadfly Tales: The Bellingham and Gutierrez Crime Series is a collection of ten stories. Six deal with the common motives of racism, jealousy, greed, anger, abuse, and revenge. Three concern the uncommon motives of enhancing sensory abilities (with and without drugs) and perverted research. One describes the aftermath of a kidnapping. Although each story can be read alone, several themes run from the first, Black, White, and Blues, to the last, Served Too Cold. One theme is the stickiness of crime to those who clean it for society. Another is the changing relationship between the two chief characters, Detective Joseph Bellingham and Sergeant/Detective Katherine Gutierrez. A third is the use of music to express the grief caused by crime and conflict.