This is our story in the "Death and Damages" mystery/thriller boxed-set
How far would you go to bring your
twin’s killer to justice?
No one
notices when Brianna Denton goes missing every weekend. With no immediate
family or close friends left, being alone is something with which she has
become well-acquainted, but when her sister is murdered, she finds herself on a
lone mission to identify the killer.
According to
the authorities, ‘no body, no case.’ Brianna’s quest to find her sister’s
murderer despite the police department’s refusal to help, draws her into a life
of drugs, alcohol, and prostitution – the very elements that led her twin to the shadows and rat holes of the underbelly of North Beach.
Drawn into the dark underground society to
face Tatianna’s killer, Brianna is about to come face-to-face with her own
shocking destiny. As she unearths long-buried secrets, the tight edge of
reality comes to light, challenging her tenuous grip on life as she knows it.
Finding the answers she seeks could lead her to an even darker place.
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Excerpt from "Death's Shadow"
Excerpt from "Death's Shadow"
"Death's Shadow" - from the "Death and Damages" mystery boxed-set
This excerpt is from the story Muffy Wilson and I just sent to the editor. It's raw right now, and editors always make it better. It's a rewrite of Muffy's story about a young graduate student who takes to the streets (and I mean that in every sense of the word) to find her twin sister's killer:
This excerpt is from the story Muffy Wilson and I just sent to the editor. It's raw right now, and editors always make it better. It's a rewrite of Muffy's story about a young graduate student who takes to the streets (and I mean that in every sense of the word) to find her twin sister's killer:
There would be no sleep tonight, restless or otherwise. Brianna
stepped out onto the fire escape. Tabby curled around her feet as usual while
she sat, gazing and thinking back to her arrival in the city. It seemed so long
ago now. So much had happened. She remembered feeling compelled to come down
from grad school. When she came to the city, she came to bury her sister.
Images of her sister’s face flashed before her, scarred and bloody, a reminder
of her mission, her purpose.
When she arrived at the apartment, the first
thing she did was shower and taxi to the hospital to make arrangements for her
sister, but no one knew anything about her twin, nothing about Tatianna Denton.
Admitting had no records. Nothing in the ER. The ambulance service knew nothing.
She had checked everywhere, unable to shake a strange feeling of
déjà vu. Tatianna hadn’t been dropped at the doors to the ER, so where was she?
She had no doubt her sister had been killed. She felt it, a deep hollow inside
her, and yet there was no body. Even now, no body had been found, and Brianna
was starting to believe it never would. Horror movies were too often based on
true stories, and the ways to get rid of bodies were endless.
