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    Golden Ribbons: The Miss Demeanor Detective Agency Series, #2
    Golden Ribbons: The Miss Demeanor Detective Agency Series, #2
    Golden Ribbons: The Miss Demeanor Detective Agency Series, #2
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    Golden Ribbons: The Miss Demeanor Detective Agency Series, #2

    By Lauren Marie

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    Cassie Holmes has made a big change. She left sunny, warm Arizona and moved to Seattle to join three friends in a new endeavor.

    Her first case involves the disappearance of a fourteen year old girl, Cami Reynolds. Her mother is desperate to find the young girl and, even though she doesn't have much money, hires Cassie for the job. The new private detective finds a dark underworld lurks under the Via-duct that runs along the Seattle Waterfront.

    In the process of her search, she meets Jack Donovan, a undercover detective connected to a Seattle drug task force. He's six-foot-four and tries to be an imposing presence in her life. He appears to her as a homeless man, but she knows he's a cop and as the two compare notes, discover their cases criss-cross paths.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks To Go Now
    Release dateJan 14, 2021
    ISBN9781393330820
    Golden Ribbons: The Miss Demeanor Detective Agency Series, #2

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      Golden Ribbons - Lauren Marie

      Excerpt from Golden Ribbons

      Cassie wanted to give this guy a swift-kick. God, Mr. Negative, who died and made you the expert? Do you work vice?

      No, drug task force, and I know these streets. Your girl is probably in Bangkok by now.

      You don’t know shit. She was seen here just last Friday. Get your stick out of your ass and tell me what you know about Sally Skinner. Cassie felt ready to pull her Glock out and shoot him in the foot. She knew he tried to intimidate her with his height. It wouldn’t work. She was tall, too and didn’t have to look up at him much.

      Sally Skinner works for Fred and Rick Powell, two of the biggest drug traffickers in the Northwest. A lot of people have died because of them. Fred’s hobby is prostitution—the younger the better. The guy’s sick.

      When Cassie heard the name ‘Fred’, she knew she was on the right track. One of this kid’s friends said she was being watched by some guy named Fred. I’ve heard of the Powells. I worked drugs down in Arizona...

      Yeah, if those pansy-asses down in Arizona and Texas kept the doors closed to Juarez and Nogales, we wouldn’t have this situation up here.

      Focus, please. Where can I find Sally Skinner?

      He leaned against the dumpster and stared, again. She wanted to slap him across the cheek just to wake him up

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      Golden Ribbons

      Copyright © Lauren Marie

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      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to any person, living or dead, any place, events or occurrences, is purely coincidental. The characters and story lines are created from the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously.

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      Other Books by Lauren Marie

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      Love on Ice - Canon City series book 2

      I’m Not What You Think - short story

      Golden Ribbons - The Miss Demeanor Detective Agency series - short story

      Big Mike, Little Mike - short story

      The Haller Lake series - A Demon Scheme

      The Haller Lake series 2 - Magick’s Pathway

      The Haller Lake series 3 - Portal Hop

      Secrets Beyond Dreams

      BOOKS AVAILABLE IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK, AUDIOBOOK, and FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDITIONS

      DEDICATION:  TO ANGELA Ford – our characters continue on. Thank you for your continued support.

      Thank you to Jennifer Conner and Books to Go, Now for accepting the extention of this story. I appreciate your support and help.

      Chapter One

      Cassie Holmes drove her beat-up 2010 Jeep Wrangler across the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. She’d never driven on a toll road and never on a bridge that floated on a lake. Hoping all the checks and balances were in place, she looked out at the water and swallowed. It was a big damn lake and the last thing she needed this week would be a huge ticket for not paying a toll.

      She headed away from Seattle to the east side of Lake Washington to the city of Bellevue where she’d been hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who’d disappeared. It was her first job out as a private investigator and she wasn’t sure which direction to go first.

      Having just relocated from Prescott, Arizona to Seattle, Washington turned into a huge shock to her system. She’d come to Seattle for a vacation with three friends and the weather pulled the wool over their eyes. During their visit, the days were warm and sunny and the nights cool. Now it rained for ten days straight and she felt a little like the zombie apocalypse might start at any moment. She knew her tan suffered and she’d have to break down and find a tanning salon.

      On top of that, she’d come from employment as a drug task force detective run by the State of Arizona, to partner in Miss Demeanors Private Detective Agency. She felt fifty-fifty on her decision to make this change, but also knew she wouldn’t miss the politics at the Prescott cop house. She’d worked as a patrol officer for her first five years and then passed her detective boards and worked another five years. At thirty-one years of age, after bashing her head against the promotion brick wall, she’d been frustrated and angry. Everything with the opening of the Miss Demeanor Agency went so smooth, it felt like a dream.

      She followed her GPS directions and found the apartment building of the woman that came to her group’s office last night. The poor woman spent an hour and a half on the Metro bus to get to their office in Pioneer Square. Cassie felt bad about that, but the woman’s story could have made blood from her heart run out of her eyes.

      Emily Cane married a jerk who beat

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