Voluntary Madness

Punch and Juliette are in love. Juliette is a twenty-two-year-old blonde waitress in the Cracker Barrel. Punch is a forty-four-year-old black guitar player and alcoholic , who dreamed of writing the great American novel. Then Juliette's daddy died and left them a little money. So they've come to Key West for one last summer. Juliette's going to spend her inheritance on buying Punch time to write his novel. She's going to be his muse and they're going to have fun fun fun, right up until the summer ends and then they're going to commit suicide.

Hendricks' last book, the acclaimed Iguana Love, was an unflinching look at sexual obsession. Voluntary Madness is an unflinching look at the madness of love. Funny, colorful and erotic as ever, this a truly one-off love story-a sly and sexy riff on the Hemingway myth of the anguished, lonely writer.

Praise for Iguana Love:

"No one writes better than Hendricks in this tale of a dissatisfied wife who falls in with the wrong scuba-diving crowd. Guaranteed to raise your temperature, whatever the weather."-The Guardian

"The dead diviners of noir's masculine psyche-Chandler, Hammett and Cain-might be shocked. But Hendricks is their first true female equivalent."-Independent on Sunday

Marketing for Voluntary Madness:
oAuthor appearances at mystery conventions including Bouchercon
oAutographed bookplates available

Vicki Hendricks lives in Hollywood, Florida, and teaches composition and creative writing at Broward Community College. With a taste for adventure, she is an experienced scuba and sky diver.