When the crazy woman from hell, as he thinks of her, moves in next door to Michael, he isn't happy about it. When she's murdered, he's even less ecstatic, especially when he has to deal with a detective's suspicions and a nosy reporter.<br><br>Reid Hanson is a good reporter with a nose for a story. When he tries, and fails, to interview Michael, he's intrigued by the man's resistance. It takes all his persuasive powers to get Michael to open up to him about the murder ... and his past.<br><br>When Michael does, the two men set out to try and learn more about the woman's murder ... and a related one a week later. In the process they begin to fall for each other. Will their attraction come to fruition or will the killer manage to eliminate Michael, the only witness to his existence, before that happens?

Murder in the Condo Next Door

Once they left, he was more than ready to eat—but he hadn’t brought anything with him since he’d spent the night at Reid’s house. He went in back to ask Carolyn watch the front while he went to the restaurant next door to get take-out.


“I’ll do it,” Barnet said. “Tell me what you want.”


“I don’t think anything’s going to happen to me between here and there,” Michael retorted.


“Are you willing to take that chance?”


“Yeah. I need to get out of here for a few minutes. Those girls…” He rolled his eyes and Carolyn laughed.


“Sorry, but this is not up for debate,” Barnet replied. “It’s obvious from what happened last night that the man’s getting desperate. Undoubtedly because both the stories in the newspaper and the ones on TV said you’re meeting with the police and the hypnotist tonight.”


“Why don’t we order in,” Carolyn suggested. “We do that over Halloween.”


Chapter 29