FATAL
EXPOSURE
by
Gail Barrett
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BLURB:
Cold-case
detective Parker McCall has spent fifteen years trying to solve his
brother’s murder. Now a chance photo of the killer in the
newspaper sets him hard on the woman’s trail. A former
teenaged runaway, reclusive, award-winning photojournalist B.K.
Elliot chronicles the harsh reality of life on the streets -- until a
photo in the paper reveals her identity, blowing the lid off her
secret past. With a powerful murderer now dogging her heels,
and her police officer step-father determined to silence her
permanently, the last person she can afford to trust is a cop.
So why does sexy police detective Parker McCall tempt her to break
her silence and resurrect ideals she’d lost years ago? As
danger closes in, and with more than her own life at stake, Brynn
must decide if the duty-bound cop will betray her...or heal her
battered heart.
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EXCERPT:
Cold
case detective Parker McCall tightened his grip on the newspaper, his
gaze riveted on the photo of the woman splashed across the Baltimore
Sun’s front page. She could have been any affluent shopper
strolling out of the pricey art gallery—her long, glossy hair
tumbling over her shoulders, the collar of her woolen coat turned up
against the brisk November wind.
Except
for her wary eyes.
The eyes
of his brother’s murderer.
The eyes
that had eluded him for fifteen years.
He
lowered the newspaper to his cluttered desk, the laughter and banter
of the detectives beyond his cubicle receding to a distant buzz.
Then, hardly breathing, he tugged his wallet from the back pocket of
his jeans. Working as carefully as a scientist handling nuclear
material, he extracted a worn, faded photo and placed it alongside
the page.
For
several excruciating seconds his gaze lingered on the image of his
younger brother, his heart making its usual lurch of guilt and
remorse. Sixteen years old, his cheeks badly hollowed, his body
wasted by his addictions, Tommy leaned against a graffiti-sprayed
wall near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, one emaciated arm slung over
the waiflike girl at his side.
The girl
Parker had failed to find.
Until
now.
He
shifted his scrutiny to the girl, taking in her sparrow-thin legs,
the baggy sweatshirt dwarfing her scrawny frame, her unruly mop of
auburn curls. Then he homed in on her eyes—bleak, world-weary eyes
aged far beyond her years.
He
sliced his gaze back to the woman in the newspaper. She was still
petite, still thin and older than the adolescent slouching against
the wall beside his brother, but he’d stake his life they were the
same.
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
A former
RITA® and Daphne finalist, Gail Barrett has received the Book
Buyer’s Best Award, the Holt Medallion, the Booksellers Best, The
National Readers’ Choice Award, and numerous other awards.
She lives with her husband in Western Maryland. Readers can
contact her through her website: www.gailbarrett.com.
Links to
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