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by Kevin R. Doyle

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Sam Quinton hadn’t thought much about the entertainment business for several years. His days as a minor celebrity were part of his past, which was fine with him. But when a Hollywood producer walks through the doors of his gym and offers to create a TV show around his life, Sam doesn’t say no right away.

Then the producer’s partner ends up dead in her hotel room, and Sam has to put on his private detective hat to straighten things out. It doesn’t take long to realize the TV offer may not have been exactly what it was cracked up to be. Suddenly, a whole lot of seemingly bad folks are gunning for Sam. Forget his budding Hollywood career. He has to do everything possible to keep himself and his client alive.

I’d only made it three steps inside before they both looked over at the same time. Nichols waved me over.

I’d barely known Wendy Truell, but the faintness of our acquaintance didn’t matter. It’s still a shock to see someone seemingly in the prime of life with a bullet hole in their face. 

She had on a silk crimson robe with black piping and, as far as could be told, nothing else. She was slumped so her head rested on the pillow at the end of the couch. Except for the blood and gore around her, she could have stretched out to take a nap. 

Far as I could tell, it was a single shot. The front of her face wasn’t too messed up, except for the entry wound, with most of the damage apparent from where the slug or slugs exited the back of her head. 

A highball glass containing some sort of mixed drink sat on the coffee table next to an open laptop with a blank screen. 

The originally green couch pillow was drenched in red.

“Jesus,” I said.

“Nichols tells me you knew the woman,” Santiago said by way of greeting. 

“More like met. I probably spent a grand total of forty-five minutes with her, if that.”

Santiago jerked his head, and the three of us walked back out into the hallway and down a ways to talk in private.

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A retired high-school teacher and former college instructor, Kevin R. Doyle is the author of five novels in the Sam Quinton mystery series, all published by Camel Press. He’s also written four crime thrillers, including And the Devil Walks Away and The Anchor, and one horror novel, The Litter, along with numerous short horror stories published in small magazines over the years. The first Quinton book, Squatter’s Rights, was nominated for the 2021 Shamus award for Best First PI Novel. A lifelong Midwesterner, Doyle currently resides in Missouri and has loosely based the city of Providence in the Quinton books on Columbia. 

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