Valerie Urniak is a hairdresser with a difference. She can shrink your head as well as style your hair.

Valerie gave up a promising career as a psychologist to return to the vocation that put her through school. Her belief is that she's still helping people, but in a much more hands-on manner.

Then, within a period of three weeks, three of her clients die.

Only one was a natural death.

One was a suicide. Valerie cannot accept that she did not recognize the depths of her client's depression. Nor can she shake the feeling that there is a connection between that suicide and another client's murder.

Her penchant for hands-on work leads her to conduct her own investigation, much to the displeasure of the detectie working the cases. And they both learn that sometimes displeasure can lead to something else...

Permanent Damage is the first book in the Valerie Urniak Mystery series. The setting is Chicago, and the series starts in 1973.

This book contains some sexual content, and is intended for mature audiences.

The complete Valerie Urniak Mystery series consists of:

Permanent Damage, Book 1

Contrive to Kill, Book 2

Variants of Deja Vu, Book 3

A Ring of Truth, Book 4

Too Soon, Book 5

Dangerous Undercurrents, Book 5

Zugzwang, Book 6

Alternate Lives, Book 8

Partings, Book 9