DevilCloseBehind

This is a work of fiction. Characters, places, and events are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, companies, institutions, organizations, or incidents is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN 978-1-56474-825-6 (e-book)

A Perseverance Press Book
Published by John Daniel & Company
A division of Daniel & Daniel, Publishers, Inc.
Post Office Box 2790
McKinleyville, California 95519
www.danielpublishing.com/perseverance

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Book design by Eric Larson, Studio E Books, Santa Barbara, www.studio-e-books.com

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library of congress cataloging-in-publication data

Names: Dawson, Janet, author.

Title: The devil close behind : a Jeri Howard mystery / by Janet Dawson.

Description: McKinleyville, California : John Daniel & Company, [2019] | Summary: “Jeri Howard’s on vacation in the Big Easy, but a friend asks a favor and the vacation turns into a case. Laurette Mason has given up her job and apartment and disappeared with her mercurial musician boyfriend. Slade, as he calls himself, has a hard time with authority. His response to being thwarted is to strike out, sometimes in a deadly fashion. With the help of a local NOLA PI, Jeri’s investigation takes her from the French Quarter and the clubs on Frenchmen Street to warehouses and apartments in workaday New Orleans. The road leads from Louisiana back to California, and an explosive end”— Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019029472 | ISBN 9781564746061 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: Missing persons—Investigation—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3554.A949 D48 2019 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/20190294723