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    Nica of the New Yorks
    Boredom Fighter
    Nica of Los Angeles
    Ebook series4 titles

    Frames Series

    By Sue Perry

    4.5/5

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    About this series

    This is the fourth installment in the Frames series and you'll get a whole lot more out of it if you don't start with book 4!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSue Perry
    Release dateOct 26, 1999
    Nica of the New Yorks
    Boredom Fighter
    Nica of Los Angeles

    Titles in the series (4)

    • 1

      Nica of Los Angeles
      Nica of Los Angeles

      Nica of Los Angeles

      Sue Perry
      5/5 - 3 ratings
      5/5 - 3 ratings

      Nica Sheridan Taggart Ambrose Taggart Ickovic (S.T.A.T.Ic.) craves action and change, which leaves her life as stable as old dynamite. She appoints herself a private detective and gets a mysterious case that leads her into adventures beyond imagining - and she's got a crazy imagination. She enters a world of multiple dimensions called Frames, where buildings and lawn chairs can be sentient, a stray cat has great powers, books can be killers, and clouds can be spies. On the surface, Nica tackles missing person cases, while in the larger reality of the Frames she is swept into an escalating battle with stakes that could not be higher. In this first book of the FRAMES quartet, a band of allies that includes structures, landforms, and creatures sets out to stop Warty Sebaceous Cysts, a repulsive trio. The Cysts casually commit genocide to free their imprisoned leader, Maelstrom, who would bring cruelty and horror to all the Frames. There is danger everywhere in the Frames, but also a mind-boggling expansion of reality. Nica feels challenged, engrossed, and strangely at home. As she sees it, she was born to travel the Frames. === (Excerpt follows) === I became aware that the air had changed. My office smelled like a forest just after a flash flood, when everything is power-washed and tree trunks are smeared with riverbed mud. Fresh and wild. It took much strength to gently lower that window, but the stranger's arms - all sinew and muscle - showed no strain. I took a step back to get a fuller look and to get farther away. He was a wolf. I don't mean a predatory flirt, I mean he was long and lean and fast and dangerous: coarse black hair, ice-gray eyes and smile full of teeth, supreme confidence backed with survival instinct. "Please sit down," I suggested or pleaded as I retreated behind my desk. As he complied, muscles flexed inside his garments, a loose cotton tunic and drawstring pants that were as gray as February. She sat down, too. My other visitor was a princess: not as in daddy's spoiled girl, as in future queen of the fairies. She was as ethereal as he was earthy, exotic but I couldn't place the ethnic background. Cornsilk hair, slanted eyes like unpolished silver, her skin like the penny you've always kept in your pocket for luck. Her tunic was white as a desert sunrise. "We are in need of your detective arts," she said. "That tends to be why people come to this office." The joke was stillborn. "I'm good with accents but I can't place yours. Where are you from?" "Knowledge of our ancestry provides no value. We have need of your assistance," he said, in a voice that never needed help from anybody. "The fate of the free worlds is at stake," she added, in a voice like the first spring breeze on snow. "Oh-kay." Note to self, cancel ad in NUTJOB QUARTERLY. ====

      Nica Sheridan Taggart Ambrose Taggart Ickovic (S.T.A.T.Ic.) craves action and change, which leaves her life as stable as old dynamite. She appoints herself a private detective and gets a mysterious case that leads her into adventures beyond imagining - and she's got a crazy imagination. She enters a world of multiple dimensions called Frames, where buildings and lawn chairs can be sentient, a stray cat has great powers, books can be killers, and clouds can be spies. On the surface, Nica tackles missing person cases, while in the larger reality of the Frames she is swept into an escalating battle with stakes that could not be higher. In this first book of the FRAMES quartet, a band of allies that includes structures, landforms, and creatures sets out to stop Warty Sebaceous Cysts, a repulsive trio. The Cysts casually commit genocide to free their imprisoned leader, Maelstrom, who would bring cruelty and horror to all the Frames. There is danger everywhere in the Frames, but also a mind-boggling expansion of reality. Nica feels challenged, engrossed, and strangely at home. As she sees it, she was born to travel the Frames. === (Excerpt follows) === I became aware that the air had changed. My office smelled like a forest just after a flash flood, when everything is power-washed and tree trunks are smeared with riverbed mud. Fresh and wild. It took much strength to gently lower that window, but the stranger's arms - all sinew and muscle - showed no strain. I took a step back to get a fuller look and to get farther away. He was a wolf. I don't mean a predatory flirt, I mean he was long and lean and fast and dangerous: coarse black hair, ice-gray eyes and smile full of teeth, supreme confidence backed with survival instinct. "Please sit down," I suggested or pleaded as I retreated behind my desk. As he complied, muscles flexed inside his garments, a loose cotton tunic and drawstring pants that were as gray as February. She sat down, too. My other visitor was a princess: not as in daddy's spoiled girl, as in future queen of the fairies. She was as ethereal as he was earthy, exotic but I couldn't place the ethnic background. Cornsilk hair, slanted eyes like unpolished silver, her skin like the penny you've always kept in your pocket for luck. Her tunic was white as a desert sunrise. "We are in need of your detective arts," she said. "That tends to be why people come to this office." The joke was stillborn. "I'm good with accents but I can't place yours. Where are you from?" "Knowledge of our ancestry provides no value. We have need of your assistance," he said, in a voice that never needed help from anybody. "The fate of the free worlds is at stake," she added, in a voice like the first spring breeze on snow. "Oh-kay." Note to self, cancel ad in NUTJOB QUARTERLY. ====

    • Nica of the New Yorks
      Nica of the New Yorks

      Nica of the New Yorks

      Sue Perry
      0 ratings
      0 ratings

      Now that Nica has a taste for life in the Frames - the endless multiple dimensions so bogglingly like yet unlike our own - she can't wait to get back to work with the allies in the fight against Maelstrom. Being Nica, she applies her detective skills to solve problems she hasn't been asked or permitted to tackle. Meanwhile, the universe prepares for war. In the New Yorks are Frames of such power that the land imparts strange partial sentience to all, and Nica's roster of allies includes old pals and recent comrades plus local beings, landforms, and structures, notably a self-help book, a river, and a street musician with an unfathomably dark past. This is book # 2 in the FRAMES quartet.

      Now that Nica has a taste for life in the Frames - the endless multiple dimensions so bogglingly like yet unlike our own - she can't wait to get back to work with the allies in the fight against Maelstrom. Being Nica, she applies her detective skills to solve problems she hasn't been asked or permitted to tackle. Meanwhile, the universe prepares for war. In the New Yorks are Frames of such power that the land imparts strange partial sentience to all, and Nica's roster of allies includes old pals and recent comrades plus local beings, landforms, and structures, notably a self-help book, a river, and a street musician with an unfathomably dark past. This is book # 2 in the FRAMES quartet.

    • Boredom Fighter
      Boredom Fighter

      Boredom Fighter

      Sue Perry
      0 ratings
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      Nica works as a detective and longs to be called back to her new life in the other dimensions called Frames. Nica's latest client is a wife who suspects that her husband is unfaithful. Routine stuff, except that the wife is from a Frame where unfaithful spouses must die. Also, P.S., the wife is human but the husband is, well, not.

      Nica works as a detective and longs to be called back to her new life in the other dimensions called Frames. Nica's latest client is a wife who suspects that her husband is unfaithful. Routine stuff, except that the wife is from a Frame where unfaithful spouses must die. Also, P.S., the wife is human but the husband is, well, not.

    • Book Defender
      Book Defender

      Book Defender

      Sue Perry
      0 ratings
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      This is the fourth installment in the Frames series and you'll get a whole lot more out of it if you don't start with book 4!

      This is the fourth installment in the Frames series and you'll get a whole lot more out of it if you don't start with book 4!

    Author

    Sue Perry

    ... Concert stage, dark except for a deep blue spotlight. Singer drops to one knee and his narration evolves from murmur to rant. "This is the story of a man who got what he wanted but he lost what he had. He got what he wanted but he lost what he had. He got –" ...It goes on forever. It's mesmerizing. Uncomfortable. Confessional.Pretty sure this memory is from the time I saw James Brown, decades ago, but the lost identity of the singer isn't the point.I've spent my life gazing across some fence or other, admiring greener grass over yonder. I've acted on so many impulses to jump the fence. No complaints, but it has sure taken me a long time to appreciate where I'm standing right now. And nowadays that blue spotlight chant fills my head whenever I contemplate a new jump.Sometimes I jump back.I was a low–budget television producer until I wrote a psychological thriller, "Was It A Rat I Saw", which Bantam–Doubleday–Dell published in hardcover in 1992. Soon after that I became the mother of twins, jumped into graduate school, and became a disaster scientist. I dabbled in academia, government research, and consulting.I stopped writing fiction for nearly two decades, until I noticed how much I missed it. I resumed writing novels with the literary fiction "Scar Jewelry" about a family with secrets that started in the era of Los Angeles punk and persist for decades. I'm in the midst of a speculative detective series FRAMES, with "Nica of Los Angeles", "Nica of the New Yorks", and "Boredom Fighter" so far. I've just completed a nine-novella series, the young adult paranormal horror romance, "DDsE".Funny. Back in the day, I had a single book idea at a time. Now I'm flooded with them, can't keep up with them, though I write just about every day.I live in southern California. I had to leave for five years to confirm this is where I belong. I live with multiple cats, comfortably close to my twins and granddaughter. Like my life paths, my friends and family are all over the damn place. I like to visit them, spend time at the ocean, explore cities, and go out to hear live music.

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