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"Seeing Red"
Coming from Highland Press
Two mystery short stories as part of anthology with authors Lori Avocato,
Chris Holmes, and Susan Sweet.
In "Redshirted," Homicide Detective
James T. Kirkland shows up for what looks like a slam dunk "death by
natural causes" case, and finds more than a heart attack as cause of
death.
(Unedited Excerpts)
The cloying odor of death wasn't
what bothered me as I signed the patrol officer's clipboard and ducked
under the yellow tape fastened across the door. It was seeing the name
Frank McCoy printed on the sheet. I'd been chasing down dead-end leads
on an ugly double-homicide for the last thirty-six hours, and I was not
in the mood for his damn humor. Still, if I didn't play the medical
examiner's game, I might never get out of here. I added my name under
his, braced myself and stepped into the apartment.
"What do we have?" I asked, knowing
exactly what I'd hear.
Frank raised his gaze from the
corpse, which lay face up on the carpet. He grinned, saying the same
thing he said every time he showed up at one of my homicides. "He's
dead, Jim."
In "Red Flagged," he does a favor
for his ex-wife and stumbles onto a murder scene.
"Call me when you've got a dead
body," I said, and hung up the phone. I'd finally managed a few hours of
shuteye, and wasn't going to function until I had a few more. On the
bright side, the asshole who'd murdered two people was now behind bars.
Cursing the idiot in Dispatch who'd punched my phone number instead of
someone on the Missing Persons Squad, I went back to sleep.
The next time the phone rang, I
debated throwing it across the room. Instead, I pulled a pillow over my
head. Homicide detectives might be on call twenty-four seven, but that
didn't mean the entire squad was. Let them call someone else. I was too
groggy to realize it was my land line, not my cell ringing until my
ex-wife's voice burrowed through the layers of fog and memory foam.
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Coming in 2011 from Five Star Expressions:
WHERE DANGER HIDES
Advance Praise for Where
Danger Hides:
Terry Odell has penned anther action packed adventure
with a hero to die for and heroine her hero is willing to die for. A
page turner for sure.
Donna MacQuigg, author of The Dragon’s Secret
Grabs you from
word one! A clever and sophisticated romantic suspense filled with
story turns you don't see coming and characters that jump right off the
page.
C. C. Harrison, award winning author of The Charmstone and Running
From Strangers.
Terry
Odell ... weaves you into the lives of Miri Chambers and "Just" Dalton.
Within the first few pages you're hooked and off on a heart-pounding
ride of adventure, suspense, intrigue, and undeniable romance. WHERE
DANGER HIDES is an adrenaline rush that will capture your heart.
Mason Canyon
WHERE DANGER HIDES has it all:
ACTION, SUSPENSE, WIT, ROMANCE! Terry Odell scoops us up on page one and
doesn't set us down until The End, treating us all to a
deliciously-dangerous, captivating, intelligent literary ride,
guaranteed to satisfy ... only until her next novel!"
Joanne Sundell, author of The Quaker and the Confederate.
Hiding behind the public façade of a private investigation
firm–Blackthorne, Incorporated–are a band of elite covert operatives.
Dalton (just Dalton—nobody dares call him Ambrose), is one of
Blackthorne's best. A charming Texan, he prides himself on blending in,
and there's no one he can't scam. But his obsession with putting a
Colombian drug lord out of the picture threatens to endanger his life
and the lives of his team. When Dalton nearly blows a simple undercover
assignment at a fundraising gala, it convinces his boss to tether him to
a dog-and-pony-show case at a halfway house. Instead, Dalton finds
death, drugs, and danger.
Street-smart
Miri Chambers wants nothing more than to help everyone at the Galloway
House shelter lead new and productive lives, but residents are
disappearing without a trace. An unexpected meeting with Dalton at a
gala turns into an assignment for him, but Miri doesn't think he’s
taking the job seriously. Trust doesn't come easy to Miri. When the
situation escalates into a combat zone, can she trust Dalton with her
life … and her heart?
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