MURDER AT THE COLLEGE
A
detective has a smooth-talking heartbreaker for a client, but there’s a
problem.
Quinn
has scorch marks from her last relationship and plenty of chemistry with Ben,
but he could have killed his twin brother. He demands to work the case with
her, claiming it’s his life on the line.
A
partner is the last thing Quinn wants. What she wants is to prove him innocent.
But she’s finding plenty of evidence he isn’t.
Excerpt One:
Suddenly,
thunder cracked so loudly that she felt the wall tremble beneath her hand. As
the rumbling faded, she heard the soft scuff of a shoe and felt that awful
sensation of being watched.
Even the
building seemed to be holding its breath.
There, a
scrape. Then, a rustle. Somewhere in the dark, someone was moving. Fear
skittered down her spine. Inside the heavy drapes, she couldn’t discern whether
it came from behind her or below her in the trap room.
Suddenly, the
air was heavy with a malevolent presence.
Now, a rush of
air from behind her. Then a hard shove, and Quinn tumbled down the stairs,
whacking her head on the first curve, picking up speed as she rolled pell-mell,
spiraling toward the bottom. Her left shoulder crashed into the unforgiving
steel when she rounded the second turn. Sharp pain took her breath away, but
she grabbed a rail, righted herself on the bottom step, and waited until her
eyes grew accustomed to the dim light in the trap room.
Creak, shuffle.
Someone was
hurrying across the wood-floored stage above her head. She stood and scanned
the ceiling, tracking the footsteps moving above her.
With a few more
steps, the person would be over the trap door in the center of the stage.
A shuffled step
above her, then another. Quinn held her breath, waiting in place under the trap
door.
Now! She yanked
on the steel drawbar, dropping the trap door with a bang.
A screaming
figure landed in a heap on a stack of old blankets at Quinn’s feet.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
P.H. Turner (Pat) writes contemporary mysteries spiked with long-held grudges, secrets, and murder. With roots in a Texas farm homesteaded in the 1850s, she calls Austin home. When she's not writing, she's cooking for family, or taking care of a pair of hairy mutts, or in her garden coaxing roses to bloom in the Texas heat.
Pat
is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Romance
Writers of America.
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3 comments:
We appreciate you featuring MURDER AT THE COLLEGE today. Thank you.
The cover looks good. Sounds like an interesting story.
Looks like a good book.
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