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At the biannual Highland Games in the small Texas town of Daunder, bagpipe player Nigel Pauley is ruthlessly stabbed with a sgian dubh, a knife pipers wear as part of their costume. Carl Geiger, a fellow piper and Nigel's sworn enemy, is the prime suspect. After all, he'd been seen arguing with Nigel just hours before he turned up dead.Carl didn't do it, but convincing the voluptuous deputy sheriff in charge of the investigation is another matter, which is further complicated by the growing attraction between them. In order to prove his innocence, Carl is determined to find out who actually murdered Nigel, and why. But the deeper he digs, the more people he discovers who might have wanted Nigel dead. Nigel's last-minute act before he died may lead Carl to Nigel's murderer . . . or to his own death.

Everyone is shocked when Catherine, a pregnant surrogate, goes missing--from the gay couple whose child she was carrying, to her estrangws sister Eva-Sue, to her college friend Marcus Agaston, now a Dallas Reporter. When Catherine's body appears on the shoreline of Lake Ray Hubbard seven days later, Marcus vows to find the killer.However, Marcus has a dark past--one that his husband Sam, a successful lawyer, knows nothing about. And the more clues Marcus uncovers about the killer's identity, the more connections he discovers between a history he'd rather forget and Catherine's mysterious murder. Someone will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried, and as Marcus gets closer to finding the killer, a shocking relevation proves you can't trust anyone...

Nasty Nevin is the bizarre second book in the Mickey Stanislawsky Mystery series presenting more unsettling crimes & characters.Murders in Peaceton, Texas have a habit of happening around important events in Detective Mickey Stanislawsky's life. This time, it's as she's heading out to celebrate her birthday with her friends and coworkers.At the same time, a new parolee risks her freedom to nurture a vendetta against anyone named Stanislawsky. Allies unknown to Mickey try to stop the trouble heading her way, but the parolee is determined.While Mickey works her case, two more women are found dead, and they appear to have a connection to the first victim. She's all but solving this alone, as her partner, Detective Daniel Ladenster, is increasingly scarce. He's got secrets of his own, secrets that force Mickey to defend them both from certain death.