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    Deadly Decisions: 5 Tales of Crime and Suspense
    Deadly Decisions: 5 Tales of Crime and Suspense
    Deadly Decisions: 5 Tales of Crime and Suspense
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    Deadly Decisions: 5 Tales of Crime and Suspense

    By BV Lawson

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    Five tales about dark choices people make when their backs are against a wall: a sheriff's deputy and a nun hold the fate of a meth dealer; a former violinist takes fate into his own, scarred hands; a forensic linguist obsessed with solving the puzzle of a missing Moravian deed; a homeless man killed by a hit-and-run finds advocates in a minister and his cat; a hitman who just wants to be left alone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrimetime Press
    Release dateMar 24, 2018
    ISBN9781540173089
    Deadly Decisions: 5 Tales of Crime and Suspense

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      Book preview

      Deadly Decisions - BV Lawson

      DEADLY DECISIONS

      by

      BV Lawson

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      Copyright 2012 BV Lawson

      Crimetime Press

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      But for the Grace of God

      A sheriff’s deputy and a nun hold the fate of a meth dealer in their hands.

      Violin Karma

      A down-on-his-luck former violinist takes fate into his own, scarred hands.

      No Good Deed

      A forensic linguist becomes obsessed with solving the puzzle of a missing Moravian deed that might be the key to murder.

      The Paw of the Righteous

      A homeless man killed by a hit-and-run finds unusual after-death advocates in a minister and his cat.

      Touch of Death

      A hitman with unusual skills just wants to be left alone, in this Derringer Award winner.

      Letter to My Readers

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      But for the Grace of God

      They stared at the rising orange-red flambé topped with a layer of black smoky icing that was once a mobile home. By the time firefighters could make their way up the winding road in the dark through the maze of rusted wire fencing, bramble bush and downed hemlock branches, all that remained of the double-wide would be concrete block piers and a blanket of embers.

      Barrow tried not to think about the body inside. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. He’d seen his share of death before, in his line of work as a sheriff’s deputy. But he doubted the woman beside him had.

      Are you all right, Sister? he asked.

      She nodded, never taking her eyes away from the flames, all the while fingering her rosary beads. It was a good thing her habit was black, but the smoke might stain that white wimple.

      It’s God’s will, she said.

      He almost laughed out loud at that. Was it God’s will Amos Scoggins should become the largest meth producer in McDowell County, cooking up twenty-five pounds of crank each year, luring in the downtrodden and desperate looking for a little high to get them through their miserable lives?

      I said a prayer for him, Sister Theresa added.

      Too little, too late, if you ask me. What about his victims?

      She replied, softly, I say prayers for them, too.

      They watched in silence for a few moments, as silent as two people can be standing upwind of a roaring fire full of crackling pops and the whooshing sounds of heated gas.

      Do you think he’ll go to heaven or hell? Barrow asked. He wasn’t a theologian, and at this point didn’t care what happened to Scoggins, as long as Amos wasn’t still alive and breathing on this Earth. Still, he was curious.

      I’d like to think redemption is possible for everyone. She hesitated. Yet I can’t help but remember the Parker family. And the Marsten twins, and the Satterfield baby. She

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