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. - THE MELTON HOTEL to CICI'S APARTMENT to THE MELTON HOTEL - EVENING


Gaylene insisted on stopping at the bar first and Ray wasn't about to argue with her. Three rounds of neat Scotch later, and even the medical examiner was staggering.


Mummy had taken a private table in the back corner, surrounded by tasteful, curved walls and towering plants, but sound carried. Especially her piercing voice when she took one look at Ray and Gaylene who both giggled as they strolled up, arm in arm.


"You're drunk," Mummy said with a particular viciousness that would normally have sent Ray cowering for the corner. Tonight, it just pissed her off.


"And you," she said around a ladylike burp that tasted like she needed more to drink, "are an absolute bitch. But, we all have our issues." She froze inside, shocked, appalled. Secretly shrieking in laughter while Gaylene sniggered next to her.


Chapter 178