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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 218

INT. - JULIAN BLACK'S MANSION - AFTERNOON

Kinsey paced in front of the fireplace in the main sitting room at Julian's mansion, waiting on Simone. The creepy little butler, Clarence, almost didn't let her in. Kinsey had been forced to shoulder her way inside. It brought her no end of satisfaction, the look of shock on his face or the fact he let her precede him into the house.

Normally, she would have entered around the side, through the solarium, but they seemed to be doing some construction and the glassed-in area was partitioned off by workmen. That left the front door and Clarence. And Kinsey was glad. She felt all the more empowered by the encounter, though it occurred to her as he left her with a sneer of disdain she'd one upped the help.

"Ms. DanAllart." She spun at the sound of a voice she knew, one she used to fear just a little. Julian Black observed her from the doorway, flat and unhappy expression focused on her.

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