Available now: Sam is hired to effectuate service of a Summons on a street-smart attorney who has been evading service. The attorney resides in an upscale neighborhood while maintaining his law practice primarily to manage a group of run down apartment buildings in low income neighborhoods. Sam, using her understanding of both the law and certain types of men, comes up with a unique solution to get the attorney to open the door for her.
Available now with Service With A Smile: Sam is retained by Bruce, her primary criminal defense attorney client, to review discovery documents and speak to Bruce’s client. Sam sees a pattern between the defendant and one of the Sheriff’s deputies, as well as other problems with the State’s case. In talking to Bruce’s client, Sam is told of a witness who did not appear in any police reports from the raid or after-action reports. Sam finds the witness but then must rely on Bruce to assist her in convincing the witness to come forward.
Available now: Sam is hired to locate her client’s sister, who was adopted into a different family when the siblings were all given up for adoption. Sam must travel to small-town Missouri to resolve the investigation. In the process of locating her client’s sister, Sam is forced to face her own assumptions about people, as well as learning that small towns sometimes offer simpler solutions to mysteries than big cities.
Available now: Sam is retained by an attorney client to locate a young, errant father whose ex-girlfriend wants him to relinquish his parental rights. The attorney explains to Sam that her client is the daughter of Elgin Police Detective Robert Jordan, with whom Sam has a tenuous working relationship.
Available now. Sam’s contentious relationship with her mother, combined with the news that her sometimes-lover met someone he intends to marry, leaves Sam vulnerable to her own devices. While working at the club, she meets an attractive woman, and, despite her usual rules about one night stands, she makes a decision she may come to regret.
If You Can’t Trust Your Client - available now on Amazon. Sam is retained by the partner of an attorney she has done work for to find a client who skipped out on their bill for legal services provided. Sam more directly involves Diana in the investigation, and together they must find a young man who’s hiding hard.
The Other Stories
This series of short stories will lead Sam to one of her most challenging and dangerous investigations, and a confrontation with her own demons in her first novel An Unreasonable Amount of Trouble.
Legal Matters - available now on Amazon. Sam is retained by an attorney-client who knows Sam’s bisexuality may alleviate some concerns of his client and two witnesses. When Sam and Diana visit the witnesses’ residence, events take an unexpected turn.
The Easy Way Out - available now on Amazon. Sam’s difficulties with her mother boil over into a heated exchange that she walks away from angry. Diana speaks with Hippie, one of their street sources, who is able to help them find a witness from an earlier investigation. The witness agrees to provide a statement, but refuses to come back from Tennessee. Sam must travel to Tennessee to obtain his statement, and perhaps get an idea of what her criminal defense attorney Bruce Halverson has been hinting about with problems in the drug court.
The Depths - available now on Amazon. Sam is hired to find a young man who has broken off all contact with family and friends suddenly. Shocked and disturbed by what she discovers, Sam heads to Tequila Teqilia, a mixture of rage and depression consuming her. This is the last short story before the novel begins.
An Unreasonable Amount of Trouble
In An Unreasonable Amount of Trouble, three months after her mother's death, Sam takes on a gang-related triple homicide investigation that will become more complicated and dangerous than even she expected. Will she come to terms with the psychic gift that makes her such a good investigator and allow herself to feel again, or will she continue to be trapped by trauma and her angry, cynical, hopeless view of the world?
WHERE TO PURCHASE SAM’S STORIES
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Chicago, IL