“It could be.” Brian Baker hesitated.
“Baker, what do I need to know? Why are you hem-hawing?”
“Ray, the man is Robert LaFontaine.”
His heart thudded. “I’ll be there as soon as I take my wife home.” He clicked his phone shut.
“Another rough case?” Larkin asked.
“Yes, Angel. I have to go.”
“Of course you do. It’s who you are. I’ll keep your side of the bed warm.”
Ray kissed Larkin’s fingertips. She’s the most extraordinary person I’ve ever met. Even after thirteen years of marriage, I still think so. He dreaded to leave her at this moment. However, Larkin Sloan Reynolds was used to this life. She was, after all, a cop’s wife. Nonetheless, he would not tell her who the victim was just yet.
Ray drove his wife home and walked her to the door of the antebellum home they had restored with the help of Ray’s twin brother, Raif, an architect and partner with Bertram and Gautier, and raced to a gruesome crime scene. This was who he was.
And Larkin?
Larkin was Ray’s guardian angel.
About the Author
Janet Taylor-Perry, a native of Laurel, Mississippi, a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a BS in psychology, Belhaven University with a Master of Arts in teaching, and gifted certification from Mississippi College, is an author, editor, and educator in English, social studies, and gifted. She has taught 5th - 12th grades in a number of districts in the state. She currently teaches life skills in a variety of areas with Goodwill Industries of Mississippi.
Janet’s short pieces appeared in Letters from the Soul, 2002; Brick Streets Press: 2010 Winner’s Circle; and The Magnolia Quarterly, 2012 and 2013. She’s produced pieces that finished semi-finalist, short-list finalist, and finalist for The Pirates’ Alley Faulkner Wisdom Competition in 2012 and 2013. Memberships include Kappa Delta Epsilon, Red Dog Writers, Gulf Coast Writers’ Association, The Mississippi Writers Guild, and TheNextBigWriter.com.
Inspiration comes through life experiences. She’s the mother of five and an avid reader who loves anything old and historical from antique cars to old cemeteries. She’s on Facebook @ Author Janet Taylor-Perry.
Heartless
The Raiford Chronicles #2
Police Chief Raiford Reynolds did not think there could be a more brutal, heartless killer than Latrice Descartes whom he had encountered fourteen years earlier, but when his thirteenth wedding anniversary dinner is interrupted by one of his detectives to tell him an old married acquaintance who also happens to be a United States senator has been found murdered in the presence of a much younger woman and that both are missing their hearts, Ray becomes embroiled in another murder mystery that touches even closer to him than the one involving Latrice Descartes.
Having put hostilities aside with Robert LaFontaine, Ray’s past comes back to haunt him. Who would want the good senator dead? Could it possibly be someone Ray loves with all his heart?
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