Dying in Detroit (A Bright & Fletcher Mystery)
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Acknowledgments
As always, I’d like to thank and acknowledge my agent, Curtis Russell, and my editor, Kerri Buckley.
I’d also like to thank the Cotés, Jeff and Jenelle, for their hospitality, their friendship and for never holding against me the fact that I’m not a helper.
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About the Author
Jonathan Watkins is an attorney focusing on defense of the indigent. A lifelong resident of Michigan, he lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, who is too good for him, and their two kindhearted sons. Occasionally, he blogs at brightandfletcher.blogspot.com and Tweets as @JonathanWatkin5.
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“No.” The single word fired out of Lara like a gunshot. “I’m not hiding any longer. I spent over a year in a safe house and I’m not going into lockdown now or ever again.” No way. No how. She needed to get her life back on track.
“So, how high might the risk be to Lara?” Xander asked.
“As I said, with Lara’s help we managed to get Moretti and some of his men behind bars, but we don’t know who might have slipped our noose,” Victoria replied. “And we don’t know how far Moretti’s reach might be beyond his prison walls.”
“I’m not backing down,” Lara said firmly. She’d given up enough because of that monster. She wasn’t about to sacrifice another piece of her soul to the man.
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Victoria looked at her again, a question lingering in her eyes.
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Dying in Detroit
This is the revised text of Daddy Issues, first published by Jonathan Watkins in 2013.
This edition published by Carina Press, 2015.
ISBN-13: 9781459290273
Copyright © 2015 by Jonathan Watkins
Edited by: Kerri Buckley
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