c.: Well, d.c. is busy working on a book. He wanted me to proof read his hook for “The Magruder Mysteries Murder 8; The Inert Ingredient and see what I thought. It looks interesting. I'll look at d.c.'s email while I wait for the bus to come pick me up and take me to work at The Kennel.
THE MAGRUDER MYSTERIES MURDER8; THE INERT INGREDIENT
Jay Magruder has a secret, and Alice Jones wants to know what it is. She procures a future coffee date with the eligible young detective with the intention of learning Jay’s secret. Since Jay has been infatuated with the nursing profession since he was a young child, he agrees to the date. Jay becomes infatuated with the young nursing school student, so they embark on a dating relationship.
Alice tries to pry Jay’s secret out of him on their first date. This confirms his suspicion that the older daughter of the man who trained him as a rookie police officer has inherited Ben’s tendency to dig for the truth until it reveals itself, but he stands firm on his decision to keep his secret at all costs. However, the couple quickly become intimate. After they become pregnant with their first child, the couple decides to marry.
When Alice is eight months pregnant with the couple’s second child, she confronts Jay with the reality that she can no longer be obligated to testify against him in a court of law since they’re married. When Jay reiterates his stance, Alice complains that he’s too good at keeping secrets. Burdened by guilt and a desire to earn his wife’s trust, Jay decides to unburden himself of his secret. Alice quickly learns that knowing the whole story behind cadaver number eight in the Harris County Morgue may have dire consequences: her life and/or the life of her young daughter. Alice then consults her big sister/mother figure workmate, Linda Moore.
Linda understands that Alice’s mother disappeared when Alice was a toddler and her younger sister was an infant, and she married a man with many heinous enemies, so she wants to help her friend. Linda decides that her husband may be able to help her little sister figure.
Super lawyer Jack Moore doesn’t usually represent anyone in a divorce case, but he’s willing to make an exception for his wife’s friend. He indicates that his brother may be of some help, since it’s his job to find out the truth as a clandestine agent with the CIA. This is news to Linda. She isn’t even aware that Jack has a brother, much less one who is the top black ops agent the CIA has to offer. Jack has kept the existence of his adoptive brother a secret throughout their twenty-year marriage and the death of their only child. When Jack sees how upset she is, he decides to tell his wife his truth.
Complicating the relationship between Jay Magruder and his young wife is the fact that the don of one of the two largest cartels in the western hemisphere is stalking the couple, waiting for an opportunity to kidnap the two female Magruders and force the patriarch to share his secret with him. He also wants to exact revenge on the man who almost destroyed Taylor’s cartel from the inside when Jay was working undercover. This 84,00-word manuscript is a romantic murder- mystery with a subplot that is both a tragedy and the story of a young man’s quest to find lasting love.
Jay neither expects to find love so quickly, nor does he intend to tell his secret to anyone, even the person he trusts most in the world. His first wife is the only person Jay ever trusts enough to tell his secret to, since it’s one that will affect him for the rest of his life.
f you would like to know the secret that Jay told Alice and the story the leads up to it, then please read ”The Magruder Mysteries Murder 8; The Inert Ingredient.” This is (chronologically) the first book in a series of five entitled “The Magruder Mysteries,” which details the life of detective James David Magruder. This series was developed by me using my imagination and embellishing stories that I hear at my work as a prison nurse, since I’m forbidden by law to divulge the true story to anyone outside of my work.
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