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Matt Coyle: Odyssey’s End
When Rick Cahill opens his front door he’s looking into the cold deadened eyes of Peter Stone. All he wants to do is slam the door shut. They aren’t friends and they aren’t enemies. Perhaps it’s a détente. Stone has a task for Cahill with a $50,000 payout. Locate the one person who can save…
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Peace on Earth
This year, many of the Christmas cards I’ve received have the dove of peace on them. Even if unconsciously, people feel the impact of war and strife in countries around the world if not on their very doorstep. As always, I wish you the joys of the season however you celebrate. May the love of…
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Halley Sutton: The Hurricane Blonde
“When I went into rehab, Tawney had been dead for three years, nine months, and twenty-two days.” The ‘Stars Six Feet Under’ tour bus has a notable guide, Salma Lowe. Her sister Tawney, the actor known as The Hurricane Blonde, drowned in her home’s swimming pool in the 90s. The sisters, children of Hollywood elite,…
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Matt Phillips: A Good Rush of Blood
“I’m somebody who never had a chance.” Creeley is a courier, a drug and money courier to be exact. She travels where ever Animal tells her to go. She’s one of his best – never any trouble from her while on the road. Reliable he’d say. Of course, until the trip to California she had…
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M.E. Proctor: Family and other Ailments
At long last I’m getting to this collection of stories and what a feast lies within. Here’s a selection of what’s in store for you. Let’s start with A Head for Numbers in which budget PI Sam Carranza is hired to find a woman’s father who has dementia and has run off from the nursing…