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Last Call
Diane Dean-Epps

McKenna Publishing
March 2003
200 pages
ISBN: 1932172017
Trade Size
$17.95

Another low-life, down and out drug dealer is dead -- murdered --and the event is reported on the 11:00 oíclock news. Though this is hardly unusual news fare, the story manages to capture teacher Marisa Danielsonís attention as quickly as the opportunity to purchase a twenty-dollar genuine diamond ring on the QVC home shopping network because Marisa has seen that man. Alive. In fact, she saw him the other night when she was out listening to her boyfriendís band, the Rock-A-Matics, only he hadnít been a body bag insert. Sheíd seen him arguing with an unsavory character, but what had she really seen? A murder? Why hadnít she tuned in to QVC instead of the news?