When art law attorney Abigail
Clarke is mistaken for the murdered twin sister she never knew existed, will
she be able to outwit a man determined to kill every member of her treacherous family.
Thirty years ago,
during a thunderstorm, on an isolated street in South Boston, an unidentified
two-year-old girl was discovered, abandoned, shot, barely clinging to life.
After a thorough investigation, the case was eventually designated to the cold
case files until Abigail Clarke, now an astraphobic art law attorney, is
mistaken for the murdered twin sister she never knew existed.
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Excerpt
CHAPTER ONE
March 2021
The bar was dank, and
the crowd looked rough. The drinks came cheap, and the food ladened with
grease. Welcome to South Boston.
I followed Aisling
Dolan into the bar an hour ago and watched her still nursing the beer she
ordered from when she arrived. Was she meeting her contact here? Or was this
just a stop-off place for some liquid courage? Her vibe screamed, “stay away
from me or I will cut you.” But I patiently waited, and when she initiated eye
contact with me more than once, that was my invitation to approach.
“Good evening. Do you
mind if I sit next to you?”
“I’m told it’s a free
country,” she said, turning away, and tipped her half-empty beer bottle to her
lips.
I nodded.
“So, what brings a
beautiful woman like you to America?” She was not my type, but the precious
cargo in her possession made her my type for now.
“How do you know I
don’t live here?” she asked, placing her beer on the bar, squaring off with me.
One might think at first blush she was an Irish angel: red hair, freckles, and
cerulean eyes. But I knew better.
I had studied her for
months. If my charm did not convince her to see things my way, there were
other, less pleasant ways to extract what I wanted from her.
“That Irish brogue,
as a starter. And the glow of your skin could only come from the dew of Irish
rain,” I replied, reaching out to touch a stray red hair.
She laughed and
rolled her eyes. “Is that the best you’ve got in your bag of tricks?”
I grinned and winked.
“Unfortunately, I
have to cut this short.” She smiled. “I am meeting someone and cannot be late.
If you take care of the bill and want to continue this party, then meet me at
my hotel in an hour. I am staying at the Reeves Inn. It is down the street,
room 235. Call from the lobby. Ask for Aisling Dolan.”
I smiled and motioned
to the bartender to hand me her tab. “It will be my pleasure.”
The
Dolan family’s day of calamity was at hand, and I was here to collect. I am
looking forward to making your acquaintance next, Abigail Clarke.
Author
Bio –
Kathleen McGillick is an
attorney by education and writes mainly suspense and thriller novels.
She earned a B.S.N. from the University of Miami,
and an M.S. from Adelphi University, after which she practiced nursing for
seventeen years. In 1994, while working as a Registered Nurse, she earned a
Juris Doctorate from the John Marshall School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia. Her
solo law practice in which she specialized in Family Law for twenty-seven
years, centered on meeting the needs of women and children.
While
practicing law, she turned to novel writing and has self-published ten novels
that have recurring themes of legal intrigue and stolen art. As an avid
international traveler, she incorporates many of the places she has traveled
into the settings of her books. For the last fifteen years, she has immersed
herself in the study of art history and the intrigue of crimes related to fakes
and forgeries which she weaves into her character-driven complex plots.
Born
and raised in New York, she now resides in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia.
Kathleen is a grandmother of two teenage grandchildren and a mother to four fur
babies.
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