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    A Father's Daughter
    A Father's Daughter
    A Father's Daughter
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    A Father's Daughter

    By Russ Crossley

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    Saffron Smythe is rich.
    Saffron Smythe is spoiled.
    Saffron Smythe is a daddy's girl.
    Saffron Smythe is dead.
    She's been murdered.

    When Saffron finds herself at a heavenly way station and discovers she's been murdered she realizes she needs to discover the reason she died and who killed her. She immediately enlists the aid of paranormal investigator Amanda Dark to solve the crime.

    Amanda begins the investigation and discovers the identity of the killer is not who Saffron expected and a dark family secret too terrible to face.

    An Amanda Dark story designed to make you hold your breath.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJun 1, 2015
    ISBN9783959265218
    A Father's Daughter
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    Russ Crossley

    International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge of the Lushites, is a sequel to Attack of the Lushites released in 2011. The latest title in the series was released in the fall of 2013. Both titles are available in e-book and trade paperback. He has sold several short stories that have appeared in anthologies from various publishers including; WMG Publishing, Pocket Books, and St. Martins Press. He is a member of SF Canada and is past president of the Greater Vancouver Chapter of Romance Writers of America. He is also an alumni of the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writers Master Class taught by award winning author/editors, Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Feel free to contact him on Facebook, Twitter, or his website http:www.russcrossley.com.  He loves to hear from readers  

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      A Father's Daughter - Russ Crossley

      A Father’s Daughter

      Russ Crossley

      Published by 53rd Street Publishing

      Copyright 2015 Russ Crossley

      All rights reserved

      Cover art © Suzanne Tucker | Dreamstime.com

      Cover designed by R. Edgewood

      Cover design and layout copyright 2014 by 53rd Street Publishing

      53rd Street Publishing

      Head office: Gibsons B.C. Canada

      www.53rdsteetpublishing.com

      ISBN: 978-3-95926-521-8

      Verlag GD Publishing Ltd. & Co KG, Berlin

      E-Book Distribution: XinXii

      www.xinxii.com

      This is a work of fiction.

      Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

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      A Father's Daughter

      Saffron shifted her bottom on the hard pine chair, where she sat studying the unadorned steel-gray walls and floor of the ten-by-ten-foot room surrounding the burnished steel desk in the center of the otherwise bare room. Looking down at herself, she discovered she was dressed in black slacks, flats, and a white cotton long-sleeved shirt. The clothes reminded her of the K-Mart housewives she silently mocked when she made trips to the mall to visit the high-end shops for new shoes and the latest fashions. She had closets reserved just for her shoes. She had never worn such frumpy clothes in her life.

      Seated across from her in a brown, well-worn leather chair, was a pale-faced, severe-looking woman with mint green eyes, her angular features focused on the pages of a large, clothbound book, open on the desk in front of her.

      Saffron had no sense of how long she’d been here or how she’d gotten here. But she did have a vague sense of unease, deep in her belly,

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