Kent Conwell - Tony Boudreaux 12 - Murder Among Friends

A Tony Boudreaux Mystery

The Tony Boudreaux Mystery Series

Kent Conwell

This title was previously published by Avalon Books; this version
has been reproduced from the Avalon book archive files.

And to my wife, Gayle

While I’ve never seen any research on it, I’ve always believed that most of us, save the very jaded or very selfish,
possess one or two of those quixotic genes that drive us to
tilt at windmills that we know we can no more defeat than
we can lick our elbow.

And that was the very situation I ran into last March when
an old friend asked me to do the impossible. Against my better judgment, I gave it a shot and landed neck deep in alligators. Or maybe I should say, neck deep in drifting snow.

You can imagine my surprise that evening when I answered the doorbell at my apartment on Payton-Gin Road
and came face to face with an old girlfriend named Debbie
Edwards Reeves, a petite brunet with brown eyes that reminded me of Bambi. Like the modern American woman,
she was discerning, knowledgeable, and capable; but she
was not a multitasker. Give Debbie more than one problem,
and she was in trouble.