Mourning Dove Mysteries, Book 2
Mystery, Crime Fiction, LGBTQ
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
Date Published: Oct 19, 2019
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The Mourning Dove Mysteries series includes:
1. MURDER ON THE LAKE OF FIRE
2. DEATH OPENS A WINDOW
3. A LIGHT TO KILL BY (coming August 3)
Emory Rome is back in DEATH OPENS A WINDOW, Book 2 of the Mourning Dove Mysteries and the follow-up to the international bestseller MURDER ON THE LAKE OF FIRE.
As he struggles with the consequences of his last case, Emory must unravel the inexplicable death of a federal employee in a Knoxville high-rise. But while the reticent investigator is mired in a deep pool of suspects – from an old mountain witch to the powerful Tennessee Valley Authority – he misses a greater danger creeping from the shadows. The man in the ski mask returns to reveal himself, and the shocking crime of someone close is unearthed.
At thirty-two stories, the Godfrey Tower jutted from
the Knoxville skyline like a shark fin in the Tennessee River. Unseen through
the frameless exterior walls of silvery, reflective glass, a young woman on the
twenty-ninth floor sat with a phone held to her ear, pretending to be on a
business call as she stared out the floor-to-ceiling window behind her desk.
While her colleagues busied themselves on phones or computers at the dozens of
cubicles throughout the large, open office space, Angie was not contributing to
the organization’s productivity.
If she had looked down and across the street, the
attractive brunette would’ve seen the unremarkable roof of the area’s
next-tallest building fourteen floors below her. Instead she focused on the
unobstructed view of downtown and the hazy, snow-peaked mountains beyond. She
imagined herself hiking below the snowline with her new lumbersexual boyfriend
and lying with him on a blanket before a tantric campfire. Angie could almost
hear the crackling wood, until she realized the sound was coming from behind
her.
She turned her chair around to see her boss tapping
her desk with his pen. The hoary goat of a man stared her down, his pinched
eyes straining to scold her through spotted glasses. “You’re having a rather
one-sided conversation.”
Angie held up a silencing finger to her boss and made
up something to say to her imaginary caller. “Thank you so much for your
feedback, Mr. Watkins. We always appreciate hearing about good customer
service, and I’ll be sure to pass along your kudos. Okay. Take care now.” She
hung up the phone and greeted her boss with a smile. “I’m sorry, but I didn’t
hear what you said.” She mimed a talking mouth with her hand. “He was talking
my ear off.”
Mr. Ramsey, however, did not return her smile. In
fact, a look of horror sprinted across his face as something behind her
snatched his attention. Before Angie could turn around to see what it was, she
heard a great shattering, followed by the pelting of glass on her back and
right cheek.
A dark-haired man in a brown suit flew through the
window headfirst and thudded faceup onto the floor beside her. The impact
against the man’s back shoved the air from his lungs. He gurgled as he
struggled to regain his breath – although no one could hear it over the screams
of Angie and several of her co-workers. Shards of glass protruded from his head
and neck, one at the base of an erratic fountain of blood that sprang from his
carotid artery.
Angie, now shocked into silence, tore her eyes from
the dying man and toward the broken window through which she had daydreamed
just a moment earlier. Oblivious to the blood trickling from the small cuts on
her own face, she took a step toward the large hole the man’s body had punched
into the glass wall. She poked her head outside and looked all around.
Her boss grabbed her and pulled her away from the
precarious opening. “Angie, what are you doing? It’s not safe!”
The young woman turned a confused face to him. “Where
did he come from?”
About the Author
Award-winning mystery author Mikel J. Wilson draws on his Southern roots for the international bestselling Mourning Dove Mysteries, a series of novels featuring bizarre murders in the Smoky Mountains region of Tennessee. Wilson adheres to a “no guns or knives” policy for the instigating murders in the series.
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