A Piece of Eight

Deadly Coin Caper

 It wasn’t supposed to be Lieutenant Joe Brady’s case, but two homicide detectives had called in sick that day. So Brady answered the call when the report came in that a pawn shop owner had been murdered. At first it seemed a routine case of robbery gone wrong, but the signs of torture on the body soon suggested something less routine. That “something” was revealed when the coroner found a small silver coin hidden in the victim’s shoe.

 The coin was a Spanish dollar, or piece-of-eight, minted when Spanish gold fleets still plied the waters of the Caribbean. It was the coin that had been the inspiration for the U.S. dollar.

 What first seemed a botched robbery quickly escalated into something far more sinister.  As Joe Brady investigates, his path crosses that of Jean Lock, town librarian. Suddenly, Joe has two competing goals: solve the case, and win the heart of the lovely keeper of the books.

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