P. J. MACLAYNE (Cont.)
THE BARON’S CUFFLINKS
BLURB EXCERPT
What starts as girls’ night out ends in murder, and
Harmony Duprie is a suspect.
She’s innocent, of course, but with no alibi, the sher-
iff’s department won’t remove her from the list of sus-
pects. It doesn’t help when a waitress from the bar gets
beaten up and the only clue is a slip of paper with Har-
mony’s name on it. Throw in a rookie deputy dead set on
building his reputation, and Harmony must tread care-
fully.
But caution isn’t Harmony’s middle name, and she
plunges headfirst into danger to defend her honor.
What she finds is a web of half-truths and suspicions
implicating several law enforcement agencies, with Jake,
her ex-lover, stuck in the middle of it all.
Can Harmony rescue Jake and find the real culprit
before she becomes the next victim? I noticed what appeared to be a leather-bound book
half-buried under some old college textbooks. I set them
aside, picked the book up with my other hand, and
rubbed my forehead in puzzlement. As thick as the vol-
ume was, it should have weighed more.
I ran one finger across the gold-embossed title. Wolf’s
Knight, Tasha’s Tale. Another unknown. I gingerly lifted the
cover, half afraid the book would fall apart.
The book was hollowed out to create a hiding place.
Inside the empty space was a small, purple, velvet-covered
box. I hesitated for the briefest of moments before taking
the box out and setting it on top of the nearest stack of
books.
My mind raced as I imagined what the box contained.
A diamond ring? A pair of fancy earrings? Or just some
child’s plastic beads? With unsteady hands, I lifted the lid.
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