After Death
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Last published Mon, Sep 11, 2023
Steve Reynolds is your regular well built, doting husband with no evil wish against anyone. On a lovely, unexpectedly pleasant morning he is called to identify the bodies of his three months pregnant wife and best friend after the car "supposedly" lost control.
And there comes Adeline Drummond, a meticulous, beautiful, naturally suspicious, dedicated and smarter than the degree detective put on the case.
Joggling with an ex husband with the aura of the devil on her tough-assed tail climbing his way up her nerves and new life and helping out an old school friend discover the truth about his wife's death and that of their common friend, her deputy chief on her face for her ex who she's not interested in anymore and falling in love with a former friend and colleague.
Some secrets are just meant to go with the dead.
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