Edward J Herdrich

Samantha "Sam" Rose Johnson, Licensed Private Detective Edward J Herdrich

Samantha "Sam" Rose Johnson is a tough, cynical, but law-school educated, Licensed Private Detective. From growing up biracial on Chicago's tough south side in the seventies, to a tour with the United States Army Military Police Corps and completing law school, Sam knows how to investigate using skills from the the street and the legal. When encountering thugs of any stripe who ask her who she thinks she is, she replies with a sardonic grin, "straight up bitch... comma optional." In Volume II of the Collected Stories, we follow Sam through a series of investigations, two of which will set the stage for a complex and dangerous Criminal Defense investigation, while at the same time struggling with personal demons related to her mother's death and her unresolved anger with the father she never met. With the help of friends and colleagues she will face both these challenges in her first full length novel - An Unreasonable Amount of Trouble.