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A DEAD RED CADILLAC
An Amateur Sleuth Mystery
By R.P. Dahlke
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Except for the unwanted, but inevitable fortieth birthday, life is good for this ex-New York model-turned-pilot as she runs a crop-dusting business for her taciturn, widowed father and hangs with the regulars at Roxanne’s Truck Café. But then Lalla’s trophy red Cadillac is stolen, and crows feet and sagging thighs become the least of her problems. Probably because the police are asking how a piano playing widow, who couldn’t possibly see beyond the hood ornament, was found strapped in the driver’s seat and six feet under water in a local lake.
Before Lalla can blink, she finds herself romanced by the widow’s hunky nephew, chased by a homicidal cross-dresser, menaced by a psychotic Chihuahua and threatened by a drug running crop-duster–who thinks she’s trying to muscle in on his territory. Lalla only wants to stay alive, out of jail and away from murderous suspects.
A DEAD RED HEART
An Amateur Sleuth Mystery
By R.P. Dahlke
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- Daniel Shanahan & RA Phillips’ Stunt Stearman
Chapter One:
I like having a man at my feet. Tough guys who grovel are my favorite, though I’m not adverse to a little toe kissing when appropriate. I leave the toe kissing for those uneven date nights when my sweety, Caleb Stone, is not on duty and I’m not neck deep in summer time work.
None of which had anything to do with the man presently draped across my feet. Dead drunk, I figured, looking down at the patriotic red, white and blue ribbons binding the gray ponytail at his neck. Military sniper, and now homeless poet, he was also my own personal nuisance, and Sheriff Caleb Stone had warned him to persist in this behavior would be ill-advised and considered harassment–his words, not mine. Caleb’s belief that a Marine should always be able pull himself out of the fire didn’t take into consideration the concept that Billy’s alcohol, doctored Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, was not conducive to any such persuasion.
