**This is the the working introduction
to Duke Wellington, P.I. in Murder of Innocence. The cover art is
courtesy of my son, PrinceG.**
Natalia Rawlings and Kenzi Davis, were
thirteen-year-old best friends who loved to have fun. Unfortunately,
their determination to experience life no matter what happened led to
their murders. It was too late for the teens to realize that they
were better off playing with their dolls than with fire. Why were
they in that old abandoned house in the first place? What happened?
Why were their bodies disposed of in that trunk? The police were
doing their best to solve the case, but their efforts were not enough
for the mothers, Spencer and Joan.
Enter Duke Wellington a suave, no
nonsense former beat cop who emits the gritty edge of the North East
Coast streets where he was groomed. The African-American private
investigator meets and befriends Pastor Charles, after the minister
saves his son Devin's life after a car accident that claimed the life
of Duke's wife and daughter. As a promise, Pastor Charles "loans"
Duke's business card to his parishioners who are in dire need of his
help. Such is the case when Duke is hired, (pro bono) to investigate
the deaths of the two girls. Their brutal murders shock their
families, as well as the community. The mystery is right up his alley
as he is a proponent for children and works diligently to get justice
for them.
What Duke uncovers during his hunt
for answers takes him from ethnically mixed suburbia to the projects.
He learns that the girls were in over their heads in their quest to
have fun. During the mystery he is involved in a high-speed chase in
his 1965 Corvette Stingray convertible. In the end he discovers the
meaning of pure evil in a suspect no one expected.
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