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    Guarding Lacey: Smokey Dalton
    Guarding Lacey: Smokey Dalton
    Guarding Lacey: Smokey Dalton
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    Guarding Lacey: Smokey Dalton

    By Kris Nelscott

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    Private detective Smokey Dalton does his best to protect his adopted family, from his 11-year-old son Jimmy to his friends, the Grimshaws.  But Smokey can't see everything.  Jimmy notices that Lacey Grimshaw—"thirteen going on trouble," Smokey says—skips school to hang out with an adult man.  Jimmy doesn't want to tattle, but he's worried about Lacey. So he pretends he's Smokey, and follows her, learning secrets that will change him—and Lacey—forever.

    "Excellent…Kris Nelscott's first short case for Smokey Dalton requires him to be as sensitive and brave as her novels (do)."

    —Kirkus

    "(A) crime writer deliberately taking chances."

    —Chicago Tribune

     "Kris Nelscott has created an intriguing character in Smokey Dalton, a tough-guy black private eye based in Chicago."

    —Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateSep 25, 2018
    ISBN9781386144588
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      Table of Contents

      About the Author

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      THE SMOKEY DALTON SERIES

      in order:

      Novels

      A Dangerous Road

      Smoke-Filled Rooms

      Thin Walls

      Stone Cribs

      War at Home

      Days of Rage

      Street Justice (March 2014)

      Short Stories

      Family Affair

      Guarding Lacey

      EVERY OTHER MORNING, my dad drives me and my cousins to school, except he’s not really my dad and they’re not really my cousins. My dad—his name is Smokey—he says we’re family, and I guess he’s right about that.

      He sure guards us like family. When Smoke drives (I known Smoke since I was three; I just can’t get used to calling him Dad), he lines us up like little ducklings, and makes us walk hand-in-hand into the school.

      The duckling thing is hardest in the winter. It’s the beginning of 1970—a decade Smoke says’ll be better than the last one—and there’s been ice. We lose our balance if even one person slips (and it’s usually Noreen, who’s six, and never pays attention), and we just look plain silly.

      I’m tired of looking silly, but I know the dangers if we don’t.

      Last year, the Blackstone Rangers tried to recruit me and my cousin Keith, and Smoke, he beat up a Stone so bad they ain’t bothered us since. Or not much, anyway. Smoke’s a big guy and now he’s got a knife scar on his face and he can take on just about anybody. The Stones look away when they see him. I think he scares them.

      They hang in the playground and smoke cigarettes and they watch us all, especially my cousin Lacey. Smoke says she’s thirteen going on trouble, and he don’t know the half of it.

      Our school is on the South Side, which the news says gots the worst schools in Chicago. Smoke agrees, but he’s weird about it; his girlfriend, Laura Hathaway,

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