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    Ossie Piñero PI Mystery Short Stories
    Ossie Piñero PI Mystery Short Stories
    Ossie Piñero PI Mystery Short Stories
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    Ossie Piñero PI Mystery Short Stories

    By R.V. Reyes

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    Ossie Piñero, Private Investigator in training, has a problem. Her Puerto Rican family keeps getting her entangled in their dramas. Working for family is all trouble and no dinero. As the only woman in the PI firm, she’s used to getting the boring and slime-ball cases, but at least those pay. The cases in these stories are family freebies. She hates being the sexy dangling carrot in the firm’s philandering husband cases but she doesn’t mind using her assets when it comes to helping out her family. Her short-shorts gain her valuable information about the gambling ring her cousin’s boyfriend is wrapped up in. But will that information cut short her P.I. career?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.V. Reyes
    Release dateSep 28, 2014
    ISBN9781502241931
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      Ossie Piñero PI Mystery Short Stories - R.V. Reyes

      The Vegetarian Wedding

      &

      The Baby Shower

      a duet of Ossie Piñero, P.I. short stories

      by R.V. Reyes

      ––––––––

      Copyright © 2014 by R.V. Reyes

      All rights reserved

      This is a work of fiction. All names, places, and events are works of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to people living or dead, locales or incidences is purely coincidental.

      Acknowledgements

      Thank you to Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and RMC for all the encouragement and advice. I couldn’t have done it without you.

      A note from the author

      This duet of stories is the birth of a character, Ossie Piñero. She is a New Jersey private investigator in training. The state requires five years of investigative experience and the passing of a written test before it will issue a license. To get that experience, Ossie works for a large firm and uses their license as an umbrella. The firm is called S.P.I., Spade Private Investigators. But Ossie calls them Sexist Pigs Inc. because she is the only female investigator on staff and therefore gets assigned either the most boring jobs or the ones that require a show of tits and ass. She is more than willing to put in her years of training but while doing it she’d like to get some useful knowledge of the business. To get what she needs Ossie has found a way around her sexist bosses. She has found a secret mentor. Between the mentor’s advice and her own curiosity, Ossie is learning her craft by trial, error, and happenstance.

      The stories you are about to read are non-paying cases. They are family freebies. As you will come to learn, her large Puerto Rican family demands a lot of her time and devotion.

      I hope you enjoy getting a glimpse of a character’s back story. The compromise she makes in The Baby Shower is what will lead to the full-length story I am developing for her. Please let me know if you are a fan of this new character. It will help me write her story quicker.

      The Vegetarian Wedding

      It’s hard for me not to study a crowd, even when relaxing at a family wedding. I’m a private detective. It’s my job to observe and question.

      The river made a lovely backdrop to the reception festivities. Smiles and laughter were everywhere.  I could hear my sister say, As if ordered by the creator himself. She was talking about how perfectly the sun set into the V pocket of the lush Cumberland Mountains.  Nat King Cole’s honeyed voice drifted from speakers secured to the oak trees’ branches. It was worthy of a wedding magazine centerfold, except there would be no champagne toast or dancing.

      My frugal sister had managed to throw a classy event on a shoe-string. Her entire church had donated their services from food preparation to the ceremony’s musical accompaniment. I was amazed that everyone was helping. No way would that happen in my town of Hoboken, New Jersey. The only things Sis had paid for were the location rental and the photographer. 

      I chose to sit at the outsiders’ table. I could’ve sat with the rest of my family at one of the two tables reserved for the bride’s side. Twenty-two of us had made the trip down from Jersey. We took up half a floor at the hotel. While at times, I appreciated having a big family, adjoining rooms made me feel like I was back in high school, trying to sneak out for the night.

      I’d walked the perimeter of the patio checking for entrances and exits before picking the table in the far front corner. It gave me a linear view of the bridal party tables — maids on the left and groomsmen on the right, with the betrothed’s cozy table separating the two

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