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Low Country

Eric L. Haney
Chapters (25)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. CHAPTER 1
  4. CHAPTER 2
  5. CHAPTER 3
  6. CHAPTER 4
  7. CHAPTER 5
  8. CHAPTER 6
  9. CHAPTER 7
  10. CHAPTER 8
  11. CHAPTER 9
  12. CHAPTER 10
  13. CHAPTER 11
  14. CHAPTER 12
  15. CHAPTER 13
  16. CHAPTER 14
  17. CHAPTER 15
  18. CHAPTER 16
  19. CHAPTER 17
  20. CHAPTER 18
  21. CHAPTER 19
  22. CHAPTER 20
  23. CHAPTER 21
  24. CHAPTER 22
  25. CHAPTER 23
001

Nobody to Turn to...

I looked closely at the woman. She was slightly built and thin to the point of boniness. She was dressed in a sweatshirt, jeans, and white sneakers. Her hair was pulled back in a tight ponytail, and she held herself rigidly, one arm across her midsection, as she nervously smoked a cigarette. When she inhaled her cheeks collapsed over missing teeth. She stared at me with a fixed intensity as she exhaled a long blue stream of smoke, and said nothing. At first I thought she was Danny Ray’s mother, and then it dawned on me who she actually was.

“Mrs. Causey?” I asked as Danny Ray stepped forward.

She took another drag on her cigarette before removing it from her mouth and announcing, “Yeah, I am,” in a smoke-and-whiskey voice.

“I’m very sorry for your loss, Mrs. Causey,” I said to the sad woman before me. “I wish there was some way I could help.”

“Danny Ray, here, tells me that maybe you can, Mr. Tanner. My daughter didn’t commit suicide,” she said as tears came to her eyes. “She was kilt. I know it, but won’t nobody listen to me. Not the law. Not nobody. I need your help, Mr. Tanner.”

I took a deep breath and then stepped forward. As the woman dissolved into tears, I put an arm around her thin shoulders and guided her toward my boat. “Come with me, Mrs. Causey, and you can tell me all about it.”

Berkley titles by Eric L . Haney

Fiction

LOW COUNTRY
NO MAN’S LAND

Nonfiction

BEYOND SHOCK AND AWE

(written with Brian M. Thomsen)

Title Page

001

Copyright Page

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LOW COUNTRY

A Berkley Book / published by arrangement with the author

PRINTING HISTORY

Berkley mass-market edition / December 2010

Copyright © 2010 by Eric L. Haney.