I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

When transsexual starlet Aisling is murdered, Detective Geraldine Meyers is assigned the case. With help from medical examiner Dr. Rachel Hunter, Gerri realizes this is no ordinary killing. While she might not want to call in over-eager anthropologist Dr. Kinsey DanAllart, the detective is forced to trust her friend's expertise in symbology, even though doing so means admitting "weird" things might be happening in Silver City. As the three friends unravel the mystery of the dancer's death, one thing is made absolutely apparent--something isn't right in their new hometown. And someone is doing everything they can to make sure the truth doesn't come out.

In Silver City, sometimes friendship can be murder.

Nightshade Cases

INT. - 9TH PRECINCT INTERROGATION - AFTERNOON


Gerri stared through the glass into the interrogation room, a thin folder in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other. She'd immediately been assaulted-figuratively, if not literally-when she emerged from Patterson's office by the demanding and shaking Gaylene Striker.


"He killed her," she said as she stormed up to Gerri. "I know it."


It didn't take much to convince the woman to come downtown, just shortly after a quick interrogation of Maria, the housekeeper, turned up very little. Either the woman was faking her inability to speak English or she really couldn't understand. Gerri's discomfort with Gaylene translating what small information the older woman was willing to give cut that situation short. Cursing herself for not taking Spanish in college, Gerri put a call in to the 9th to have one of the bilingual detectives have a chat with Maria while she dealt with Gaylene.


Chapter 171