Works by
Sunny Frazier
(Writer)

Fiction

• Fools Rush In  (2006)
  On a blazing July day in Central County, California, snitch Johnny Blue is murdered by a lethal heroin injection. Undercover narcotic detective James Wolfe, the operative who handled Blue, goes to the Sheriff's Department substation seeking ex-girlfriend Christy Bristol. In the past he ridiculed her hobby of casting horoscopes. Now he needs her expertise to catch the man he suspects is behind Blue's murder, a drug dealer named Lloyd Parr.
  
  Stuck on the lowest rung of law enforcement, Christy becomes first a victim, then a hero in the high-stakes game of narcotic trafficking. Through her eyes, the drug world is reduced to individual players, lost values and discarded dreams. The reality of what goes on in the fertile land of the San Joaquin Valley is far more disturbing than the Hollywood version of drug lords and a wealthy lifestyle fueled by drug money.
  
  In the drug world of the Valley, there are no winners. Only losers.

Collaboration with Central Coast Mystery Writers

• Gone Coastal  (2006)
  The fourth mystery anthology by the Central Coast Mystery Writers. A collection of both established authors and strong new voices designed to satiate mystery readers' hunger for good fiction. The compilers have selected a variety of stories based in U.S. Coastal Areas and sprinkled in a couple inland tales for contrast. Gone Coastal offers a complete menu of mysteries from cozy to hardboiled. Whatever your taste, you'll find something to satisfy your appetite for murder and mayhem.

• Never Safe (2006)
  Danger is everywhere – on the streets, at work, in our homes and at play. Death may follow us where we least expect it. We long for the good old days. But were they any safer? No. Seeking comfort and safety in a lover's embrace might prove fatal.
  
  Paranoid thoughts? Hardly.
  
  Prevention might be your best protection. See a shadow moving own a deserted street or country lane? Duck into a bar or dive behind the nearest bush. Alone in a building? Run and find safety in numbers. But choose your companions wisely and take care: confronting danger and taking charge may cause more problems than it solves.
  
  So how can we protect ourselves and loved ones? We can't. The awful truth hits home – we are truly NEVER SAFE.
  
  Includes stories by Bill Monson, Charla Maine, Chelle Martin, Frank Zafiro, Gary Philips, Gary R. Hoffman, Gay Toltl Kinman, James M. Murphy, Jane Denison, K. M. Kavanagh, Kathleen Delaney, Kris Neri
  Margaret Searles, Marilyn Meredith, Simon Wood, Sue McGinty, Sunny Frazier, Tim Wohlforth, Tony Burton, and Victoria Heckman

See also:

• Valley Fever:  Where Murder is Contagious -- A Collection of Short Stories Set in the San Joaquin Valley (2003)
   California's Central Valley has a dark side, and it gets hot and very deadly. This collection of short stories by Sunny Frazier, JoAnne Lucas and Cora Ramos presents tales of mayhem, murder, malice, and hot-blooded passion. Some of the stories are funny, some frightening, but all are wicked.

• Seven By Seven (2006), Tony Burton, ed.
  A collection of forty-nine fascinating flash fiction pieces about the Seven Deadly Sins, written by seven deadly authors: B.J. Bourg, Deborah Elliott-Upton, Frank Zafiro, Gary Hoffman, John M. Floyd, Kimberly Brown, and Sunny Frazier.