Captain Anastasia Crenshaw is the bit player in The Radio Murders: The Collectors with a key role. She is always in the center of the action in several stories, but in The Collectors, she is incapacitated from beginning to exciting end.
Here is an excerpt from the first book, The Radio Murders: The Caller. The detective devision commander was having a friendly shooting match with one of her favorite investigators, Freddy Blakely.
"Ouch! Tough luck, Fredrico, you owe me lunch!" Truth is Freddy didn't mind having lunch with the A-2 detective commander. She was the most talked about CO in the Chicago Police Department. The daughter of an African American professor of history, who retired from the University of Chicago, and a Russian art teacher, Stacy Crenshaw was not only striking in appearance but known as switch-blade sharp.
She rose through the ranks by acing every written exam for promotion and never shying away from the tough cases. Hybrid vigor, she would joke with instructors when they marveled at her accomplishments-she tried the attempt at genetic humor on one professor while attending her father’s University, and was treated to an impromptu lecture on the improbability of such advantages outside of the plant world. There was one anomalous attribute that could have contributed to her aggressive race to out run the Stacy Crenshaw of the day before: she was a female with a Y chromosome, it was discovered quite by accident, a feature found in one of five thousand girls born in the world. Yet no one would mistake her for anything but all woman.
Thick dark brown hair framed arching, perfectly formed eyebrows and hazel-gray eyes that were as expressive as they were piercing. Her high cheekbones sloped down into a genuine smile, or snarl - depending on the situation - of perfect teeth and a strong, slightly dimpled chin. At five foot eleven inches, the captain remained permanently tanned and carried herself like a person in a hurry to make a real difference. In a high-level command position, the captain was as respected as she was liked in Area-2 detective division. Tactically she was unequaled. It was said she could shoot the hair off a spider's ass at 30 meters!
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