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    Hear No Evil: Five Scott Drayco Stories
    Hear No Evil: Five Scott Drayco Stories
    Hear No Evil: Five Scott Drayco Stories
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    Hear No Evil: Five Scott Drayco Stories

    By BV Lawson

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    From Derringer Award winner BV Lawson come five tales featuring Scott Drayco, a man who had everything going for him: handsome, brilliant, and a talented classical pianist in the prime of his youth. After violence scarred him physically and emotionally, he turned to an FBI career before becoming a crime consultant, taking on cases other people often don't want to touch.

    In HEAR NO EVIL, first published in Poison + Murder = Satisfaction, pianist Adina Dyson asks to meet Scott Drayco at a recital hall in the middle of a snowstorm, but the last thing he expects is for Adina to turn up dead.

    In TER-LUCK-EN, when noted defense attorney Benny Baskin finds himself in jail on Thanksgiving Eve, Drayco has to try to save his bacon.

    In THE LEAST OF THESE, first published in Plan B: Volume III, Drayco goes undercover at a French Embassy soiree in hopes of bringing closure to a motherless girl.

    In WITH SWEET LAVENDER, first published in Over My Dead Body, Drayco discovers that love is not always a many-splendored thing.

    In FM IS FOR MURDER, first published in Poison + Murder = Satisfaction (and honored by an American Independent Writers award), the shock-jock host of a morning radio program turns up murdered—but maybe the question is who *didn’t* want him dead?

    PRAISE FOR BV LAWSON'S SHORT FICTION

    "Now this story was close to brilliance...The plot was fast, dark and thrilling." - IHeartReading.net

    "All in all, an excellent read for lovers of quality mystery fiction." - Jacqueline Seewald, author of The Inferno Collection

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBV Lawson
    Release dateAug 13, 2016
    ISBN9781370777525
    Hear No Evil: Five Scott Drayco Stories
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    BV Lawson

    Past career hats BV Lawson tried on include maid, super-speedy typist, classical musician, radio announcer, being in TV commercials (for all of one day), research assistant, TV features writer and working for the Discovery Channel. Now a full-time freelance writer, she's penned articles for various publications and won awards for her many published stories and poems.Thanks to the influence of library genes handed down from her mother, she created the blog In Reference to Murder which contains over 3,000 links for mystery readers and writers. She's working on a series of crime fiction novels set in various locations in and around the mid-Atlantic, and when time permits, BV and her husband enjoy flying over Northern Virginia and the Chesapeake in a little putt-putt plane. Visit BV via her web site, bvlawson.com. No ticket required

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      Hear No Evil - BV Lawson

      HEAR NO EVIL

      Scott Drayco Mystery Stories

      by

      BV Lawson

      Crimetime Press

      Arlington, VA

      These stories are works of fiction. All of the names, characters, places, organizations and events portrayed are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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      OTHER BOOKS BY BV LAWSON

      Scott Drayco Series:

      Played to Death: Scott Drayco Series #1

      Requiem for Innocence: Scott Drayco Series #2

      Dies Irae: Scott Drayco Series #3

      Elegy in Scarlet: Scott Drayco Series #4

      Vengeance is Blind: Scott Drayco Short Stories

      Grave Madness: Scott Drayco Short Stories

      False Shadows: Eight Scott Drayco Short Stories (combines Vengeance is Blind and Grave Madness)

      Ill-Gotten Games, a Drayco Short Story

      Other Short Fiction:

      Best Served Cold: Stories of Revenge and Betrayal

      Death on Holiday: Three Tales of Mirth and Mayhem

      Deadly Decisions: Five Tales of Crime and Suspense

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Hear No Evil

      Pianist Adina Dyson asks to meet Scott Drayco at a recital hall in the middle of a snowstorm, but the last thing he expects is for Adina to turn up dead.

      Ter-LUCK-en

      When noted defense attorney Benny Baskin finds himself in jail on Thanksgiving Eve, Drayco has to try to save his bacon.

      The Least of These

      Drayco goes undercover at a French Embassy soiree in hopes of bringing closure to a motherless girl.

      With Sweet Lavender

      Drayco discovers that love is not always a many-splendored thing.

      FM is for Murder

      The shock-jock host of a morning radio program turns up murdered—but maybe the question is who didn’t want him dead?

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      HEAR NO EVIL

      Heavy snowflakes the size of silver dollars made fractal patterns on Scott Drayco’s coat, as he tried each door in turn. Front. Left side. Back. No joy until the last one, next to the alley with dumpsters spilling over, a veritable buffet of rat-loving detritus. The door groaned open, and he was hit by a blast of air from a furnace on maximum, which quickly melted the hitchhiking flakes.

      Adina said to meet her here at one o’clock, so here he was, even as the snow inched higher on the sidewalks and a spate of closings had been announced. It wouldn’t take a lot more snow for D.C. to shut down parts of the subway. But Adina had sounded spooked on the phone, like a child lost in a maze.

      I don’t remember when it happened, she’d said. When I realized music was all I had left, after stripping away layer after layer of cheap veneer on my so-called relationships. Was it because I cared too much or too little?

      Drayco had been inside this hall before, knew where the stage was, the greenroom, even the drink machines. Especially the drink machines. He’d always sweated so much under the flood lights, those drink machines had been a pre-concert ritual.

      He wondered if they still had the same piano, the Steinway that once belonged to one of the Rockefellers, with the warm voicing he liked. Probably not. It had been years since he was here last—after the accident, of course. Not long before he joined the Bureau.

      He didn’t see Adina. To his surprise he saw her husband Carter instead. Weren’t they getting a divorce? The big-gun businessman must have appointments in town, since he rarely accompanied his wife on tours.

      Carter Neighbours was wearing his usual Armani suit and reeking of the usual mini Cuban cigars. He spied Drayco and grunted a curt hello. Adina had loved Carter once, loved his joie de vivre, she’d said. After five years, there was little joie left for either of them.

      Is Adina here yet? Drayco asked.

      Carter nodded in the direction of the greenroom. She said she was feeling a little under the weather. With this kind of weather, who can blame her? By the way, I should warn you the deadly duo of Agatha and Sasha are here somewhere.

      No wonder Adina had sounded miserable and asked him to come. Between Carter, surly sister Agatha, and world’s pushiest agent Sasha on hand, Adina must have felt she needed a sympathetic face to balance out the zoo.

      He knocked on the greenroom door. Adina? It’s Scott Drayco. No answer. He put his ear to the door. No sounds, either. He knocked again. Adina?

      Carter came over to join him, and at Drayco’s inquisitive look, nodded Drayco could go in. The greenroom wasn’t large, but it sported the usual comforts for pampering the high-strung musician who wanted to look her best—chenille arm chair, long makeup counter topped by rows of exposed light bulbs with their nuclear brilliance.

      But in this case, Adina definitely did not look her best. She was splayed on the floor with arms and legs outstretched, as if yellow chalk lines had already been drawn around them.

      Drayco knelt by her side and tried to find a pulse, but her fingers were already showing signs

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