In this venomous comedy of sexual enslavement and homicidal social climbing, Vicki Hendricks propels the noir novel inexorably into the nineties with a hot-blooded, cold-hearted protagonist who's as irresistible as she is horrifying. Relentless in its suspense, merciless in its dissection of life on the margins of Florida's plastic paradise, Miami Purity is proof that the only thing pure in Sherise Parlay's Miami is evil.