Guarding Lacey: A Smokey Dalton Story
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Private detective Smokey Dalton does his best to protect his adopted family, from his 11-year-old son Jimmy to his friends, the Grimshaws. But Smokey can’t see everything. Jimmy notices that Lacey Grimshaw—“thirteen going on trouble,” Smokey says—skips school to hang out with an adult man. Jimmy doesn’t want to tattle, but he’s worried about Lacey. So he pretends he’s Smokey, and follows her, learning secrets that will change him—and Lacey—forever.
“Excellent...Kris Nelscott’s first short case for Smokey Dalton requires him to be as sensitive and brave as her novels (do).”
—Kirkus
“(A) crime writer deliberately taking chances.”
—Chicago Tribune
“Kris Nelscott has created an intriguing character in Smokey Dalton, a tough-guy black private eye based in Chicago.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Kris Nelscott is an open pen name used by USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
The first Smokey Dalton novel, A Dangerous Road, won the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery and was short-listed for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; the second, Smoke-Filled Rooms, was a PNBA Book Award finalist; and the third, Thin Walls, was one of the Chicago Tribune’s best mysteries of the year. Kirkus chose Days of Rage as one of the top ten mysteries of the year and it was also nominated for a Shamus award for The Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel of the Year.
Entertainment Weekly says her equals are Walter Mosley and Raymond Chandler. Booklist calls the Smokey Dalton books “a high-class crime series” and Salon says “Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.”
For more information about Kris Nelscott, or author Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s other works, please go to KrisNelscott.com or KristineKathrynRusch.com.
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GUARDING LACEY
Copyright © 2012 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
First published in Chicago Blues,
edited by Libby Fischer Hellmann, Bleak House Books, 2007.
Published by WMG Publishing
Cover and Layout copyright © 2012 by WMG Publishing
Cover design by Allyson Longueira/WMG Publishing
Cover art copyright © 2012 by Andy2000soft/Dreamstime
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This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
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THE SMOKEY DALTON SERIES
in order:
Novels
A Dangerous Road
Smoke-Filled Rooms
Thin Walls
Stone Cribs
War at Home
Days of Rage
Street Justice (March 2014)
Short Stories
Family Affair
Guarding Lacey
EVERY OTHER MORNING, my dad drives me and my cousins to school, except he’s not really my dad and they’re not really my cousins. My dad—his name is Smokey—he says we’re family, and I guess he’s right about that.
He sure guards us like family. When Smoke drives (I known Smoke since I was three; I just can’t get used to calling him Dad), he lines us up like little ducklings, and makes us walk hand-in-hand into the school.
The duckling thing is hardest in the winter. It’s the beginning of 1970—a decade Smoke says’ll be better than the last one—and there’s been ice. We lose our balance if even one person slips (and it’s usually Noreen, who’s six, and never pays attention), and we just look plain silly.
I’m tired of looking silly,