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Laurel Dewey, who DailyLit readers have now met through her stories An Unfinished Death and You Can’t Judge a Book By Its Cover, is a uniquely powerful suspense writer who has created an affecting and unforgettable recurring character in Jane Perry. Readers have responded passionately to Jane’s combination of raw intensity, surprising vulnerability, and professional brilliance. All of this is on display in Dewey’s short fiction, five original pieces of which DailyLit is offering one-per-month, leading up to the release of Dewey’s first novel, Protector in paperback in February 2010.

For this third Jane Perry story, “Anonymous,” Dewey takes us just past the events in Protector to tell of the beginning of a new life for the former Denver Police detective. Jane is working as a private investigator and attending AA meetings in an attempt to maintain her hard-fought sobriety. After a meeting, she encounters a woman with a harrowing story to tell—and a mystery that runs far deeper than Jane at first realizes.

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Copyright 2009 by Laurel Dewey. All rights reserved.

About the Author

Laurel Dewey was born and raised in Los Angeles. She began her career working in public relations for such celebrities as Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra before writing a string of mystery radio plays for Los Angeles radio networks. She is the author of two nonfiction books on plant medicine, a Silver Spur nominated Western novella, and hundreds of articles. She appeared as a featured guest on more than 300 national radio and television programs and she has lectured extensively across the United States and Canada. She is the author of two novels featuring detective Jane Perry, Protector and Redemption. To write the Jane Perry novels, Dewey immersed herself in detailed research, interviewing Colorado homicide detectives and traveling on "ride-alongs" with street cops. She lives in Western Colorado with her husband, where she is at work on the third Jane Perry Novel.

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My name is Jane Perry and I’m an alcoholic.
As I write that, it doesn’t feel like it belongs to me yet. I’m three months sober so I’ll get another goddamn chip at the meeting tomorrow night. Can’t wait. The fucking thing can rattle around in the left pocket of my jeans and keep the other ...

Copyright

Copyright 2009 by Laurel Dewey.

All Rights Reserved.