“Dedra could use that money for college.”
“Actually,” the mom replies, “Dedra wants to be an actress.”
“Or… a detective,” Dedra adds.
“Really?” Detective Corey smiles. “Dedra we have a head start program for students to see our field for themselves.”
“I would love that....”
Did Dedra chose the career path of a detective? Find out in Punished By Silence how she got her nickname! Experience a cozy mini-mystery collection, centered around sisters working together to outsmart their childhood divides. Both in-and-out of their traffic to bond, the story villains of dysfunction find themselves at the mercy of the sisters' detective skill, clever nature, and counter-manipulation.
“I just feel so out of place sometimes! My gift is recognizing patterns. I'm not a constitutional scholar like you. And I'm not a search-and-seizure specialist like Erin.”
“Miles," Kenneth Stone replies. "You specialize in sincerity. You rhyme with jurors with your empathy better than most robot attorneys! That's why I hired you. And that's why Flex insisted you be first chair."
Miles listens on while sipping hot chocolate.
“From The Art of War, the best target to aim at is directly inside your opponent's..."
“Strategy," Miles answers.
"Correct! Tana is an invisible chessboard to wear out this prosecutor's strategy, while you go for the legal knockout."
"A 'street fight on a chessboard,'" Miles realizes.
"Exactly! Get some air. I'll find a strategy that works for you both...."
It's a 'street fight on a chessboard' with courtroom war king Miles Turner and The Jury Whisperer. An unorthodox defense attorney seeks to manipulate manipulation itself as a tiger in the political jungle that 'lyin' teamwork has become.
