Say I do and DIE (Gray Ballard Mystery Book 1)
by Charles C. BrownPublish: Jan 08, 2014Crime Fiction MysteryBook Overview
Someone is killing young brides. When Gray Ballard has the bad luck to be in the vicinity of the crime and finds the first one. She is nude, on her back, with a small caliber bullet wound to the left side of her chest. Her clothes are neatly folded and stacked on a chair nearby. Forced into retirement from his career as a homicide detective in the state's capital by a job-related injury, Gray has come home to Mount Union, Pennsylvania, finished with detective work. Even when Chief of Police Richard Hogan makes him the lead suspect in the first murder, Gray is determined not to get involved in the case.For one thing, he is too busy trying to win the favorable attention of Anna Vaughn, owner of the local weekly newspaper. Anna has already been burned twice by matrimony and is leery of any relationship with any man--including friendship. And for another, Gray finds even the thought of trying to work with Chief Richard Hogan repulsive. The nearly four hundred pound man could best be described as arrogant and incompetent and has been nicknamed "Bulk Hogan" by those whose misfortune it is to serve under him.
But young brides continue to fall, and the police are baffled. Who is killing these young women? Why were these particular women targeted? How many more will die before they get a break in the case and the killer is stopped? And is it Chance, Fate or Gray's uncanny powers of observation that keep putting clues in his line of vision? Like it or not, his input is crucial in solving the case, and he is in it right up until the killer is caught.
