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Nightshade Cases

I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn. When transsexual starlet Aisling is murdered, Detective Geraldine Meyers is assigned the case. With help from medical examiner Dr. Rachel Hunter, Gerri realizes this is no ordinary killing. While she might not want to call in over-eager anthropologist Dr. Kinsey DanAllart, the detective is forced to trust her friend's expertise in symbology, even though doing so means admitting "weird" things might be happening in Silver City. As the three friends unravel the mystery of the dancer's death, one thing is made absolutely apparent--something isn't right in their new hometown. And someone is doing everything they can to make sure the truth doesn't come out. In Silver City, sometimes friendship can be murder.

Patti Larsen · Realistic
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Chapter 126

INT. - ST. MARY'S UNDERCROFT - MORNING

Kinsey sat, hands folded on her knees to keep them from shaking, in the quiet, sun-filled kid's room in the basement of the cathedral while Gerri paced one end of the space like a caged tiger. Kinsey knew how she felt, would have loved to mimic her actions. But one of them showing outward agitation was bad enough. She was far too in tune with the unhappy vibe from the gathering of girls and boys to add to it.

Bishop Harrow stood at the front of the room, fearful parents lined up behind the semi-circle of kids, no one able to meet each other's eyes. Kinsey's chest hurt from shallow breathing and tension. Her compassion for the families was so powerful she wondered if she was going to be of any help to Gerri after all.

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