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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 219

INT. - KINSEY'S APARTMENT - NIGHT

Gerri upended the bottle of beer, the sides of the glass still cold, setting it aside in favor of the fresh one Kinsey handed to her with a grin. The first beer happily in her belly, the detective exhaled a long, slow sigh, forcing herself to sip the beginnings of the second.

She guessed she should be grateful she really didn't get drunk anymore. The taste was like heaven, still, but the buzz long gone, no matter how much she drank. A side effect of the bheast race, maybe? Gerri didn't care to ask.

So much for sipping. By the time Kinsey took her seat at the table in her small dining room, Gerri's beer had mostly migrated into her. She waved off her friend's attempt to get her another, rising herself to the smell of hot, fresh lasagna the anthropologist set in front of her and Ray.

"You'd both be proud of me." Kinsey had already told them about her meeting with the dean and board, and with Julian and Simone. "I kicked serious ass."

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