Two of the most suspenseful novellas you'll ever read. Same cast in both, set 3 years apart. A chill a minute!
Two novellas under one cover. Yellow, Green, Blue & Dead: The trendy Topeka art district is an unlikely setting for a series of terrifying murders. Gallery owners and artists grow suspicious of one another as police confess they have no clue as to the identity of the killer. Radio personality Valle Stonewell, and her friend and co-worker Deb Goodman, are concerned about their all-night on-air shifts...dark and lonely predawn streets are no place for a woman, at least not until the killer is apprehended. What is the link between the victims? What do they have in common? No one can unravel the mystery - until Valle hits upon an idea that will either solve the crime - or end her life.
Murder in Magenta: Deb Goodman is in love with artist Louis Quinlan. The painting of Deb in a magenta gown is on its way to becoming a masterpiece. And then the unthinkable happens: Louis is murdered in what appears to be a robbery gone bad. But... if that's true, why is Deb being stalked? Who was the stranger with the hooded eyes that ended up impaled on a grotesque gargoyle in Deb's house? What part did he play in the plot to kill Deb and Valle Stonewell? The rollercoaster of an ending could very well take their breath away - permanently!
Excerpt
Although Thomas Cleary was retired from the Topeka police force, his training never left him. he arrived in NoTo close to three o'clock on a blustery Monday, in early November, with two paintings his wife wanted framed, and had just stepped to the counter in Arts & Expressions when someone came running down the street, shouting into a cell phone, "A homeless guy just found a body ... a woman's body...down by the Quincy Street overpass..."
While working on the set of a Hollywood horror movie, a simulated murder turns into a real homocide. Special effects artist Harri Lewis (aka Agent Proteus) steps in to try to solve the murder
Taylor Reigler moves to Indiana in order to reopen a campground she inherited. She finds decades of grime, waist high grass, and a few resident ghosts.
