Firebreak: A Mystery (34 page)
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Authors: Tricia Fields
Tags: #Fiction, #Mystery & Detective, #Women Sleuths, #Police Procedural
Josie went to the stereo and put a Norah Jones CD on. She smiled at the rich mellow voice. “I wish I could dance, just so I could move to that music,” she said.
Nick came up to her from behind and pulled her hair off her neck. He kissed the hollow behind her ear. “This is why I don’t get involved with people I work for,” he said.
Josie turned around and faced him, placing her hands around his waist and slipping them under his T-shirt to run her fingers along his smooth skin. She leaned forward and kissed him lightly and whispered, “Why don’t you want to get involved with me?”
“If something happens to you?” He cradled her face in his hands, his own expression fierce. “I don’t think I could deal with it.”
She placed a finger on his lips. “This type of talk is strictly against your rules for romance. Didn’t you tell me to quit thinking like a cop?”
His expression faltered, and she could feel his hands relax, the tension broken.
She smiled and reached her hands up around his neck. “Teach me another rule.”
Tricia Fields
lives in a log cabin on a small farm with her husband. She was born in Hawaii but has spent most of her life in small-town Indiana, where her husband is a state trooper. She won the Tony Hillerman Prize for her first mystery,
The Territory,
which was also named a Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery Debut of the Year, and was followed by
Scratchgravel Road
and
Wrecked
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CONTENTS
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.
An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
FIREBREAK.
Copyright © 2015 by Tricia Fields. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein
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The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
ISBN 978-1-250-05505-7 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-5810-7 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781466858107
First Edition: March 2015
