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 Book Four of the Maison de Danse Quartet

 

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Date Published: 12-01-2022

Publisher: Épouvantail Books

 

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What do you do when the legal system refuses to deliver justice?

Izzy knows.

Conducting her own investigations and trials, she’s out on the hunt,
righting wrongs in honor of the victims and their surviving families.

Outlaw revenge has its perils and she’s soon in the fight of her
life.

Sometimes a killer’s own survivors also go on the hunt.

Having kicked their hornet’s nest, Izzy is desperate to take them
out.

Does she have what it takes to battle off her own demons?

Can she stop those who want her dead? 

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“Good morning, Mr. Bosa,” Judge Lloyd greeted him. “What happened to your face?” He turned to the defense attorney, expecting him to explain. Bosa spoke up instead, his voice soft and nasally, sounding like a mumble-mouthed kid.

“Allergies, not sure.” Bosa looked to his attorney for support.

Your Honor, my client has an infection from the injections he administered.”

“You mean the incident with the plumbing caulking?”

“Yes, Your Honor.”

“I trust this will not hamper his ability to be present in his hearing.”
“No, Your Honor.”
“Then, let’s move on.”

The hearing began with the formal reading of the planned proceedings for the day. When Judge Lloyd concluded, it was time for the first testimony by a forensic psychologist. There would be three—one for the state, another for the defense, and the third court-appointed.

Over the next hour and a half, one after another discussed their interviews with the defendant and their findings. When you query three forensic psychologists, you get what’s expected. Bosa’s mental illnesses were described as rigid ideation, emotionally restricted, schizophrenic, and a psychotic disorder.

It took Judge Lloyd’s wise and patient mind to reel them in at the end of each of their testimonies, pressing each.

“Bottom line, is he competent to proceed? Does he have the capacity to understand the severity of the charges?”

The answer was yes, all three times.

During all this, I studied Bosa, that deadly twenty-seven-year-old toilet snake. He liked to play with his chair, swiveling it, rocking it back and forth, like a kid with a newfound toy.

Ignoring the proceedings, he was whispering to his lawyer, becoming agitated at times. Owen Mosby was trying to settle him down, eyes to the proceedings, whispering behind his hand.

“Is there a problem with the defendant?” the judge asked, pausing the state attorney’s opening remarks.

“Yes, Your Honor,” Bosa complained.

His attorney stood.

Your Honor, my client is insisting on a change of counsel…”

“He’s not asking the right questions, Your Honor. I want to fire him,” Bosa remained seated, rocking forward, resting his chin on his hand.

“So, we’re clear,” the judge addressed the lawyer, ignoring the defendant. “He’s requesting a Nelson Hearing?”

“Yes, Your Honor.”

“Mr. Bosa, I think this is unwise at best,” the judge finally looked at him. “Can you tell me why you’re making this request?”

“Yes, he refused to ask them a question.”

“Which one is that?”

“We need a fourth doctor hired,” Bosa avoided the question. “When all this happened, I was nuts. I hadn’t slept in seven years, and the voice was telling me what to do.”

“I need to remind you that this is a competency hearing, not a trial. We’re here today to determine if you’re fit to stand trial.”

“See, the thing is, Your Honor, my lawyer refuses to get them to admit I’m crazy. That’s why I want to fire him.”

To his credit, Judge Lloyd listened to this respectfully. 

“Mr. Mosby, have you counseled your client as to the serious risk to his case?” he asked.

“Yes, Your Honor. I have repeatedly explained to Mr. Bosa that there’s no ethical way to get experts to testify to what they know isn’t true.”

“But, Your Honor, there’s a doctor in Jacksonville,” Bosa went on. “And if she’s brought in, she can—”
“Mr. Bosa, did you not approve the doctor your counsel hired?” the judge asked.

During all this, the state attorney watched on patiently, letting the absurdity play out.

“Yes, Your Honor, but that was before he didn’t tell the truth.”

“So I’m clear, Mr. Bosa, you want to fire your counsel. Do you have new counsel in mind?”

“I want to represent myself.”

About the Author

Greg Jolley

Greg Jolley earned a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of San
Francisco and lives in the very small town of Ormond Beach, Florida. When
not writing, he researches historical crime, primarily those of the 1800s.
Or goes surfing.

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Suspense

Date Published: 12-01-2022

Publisher: Épouvantail Books

 

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What do you do when the legal system refuses to deliver justice?

Izzy knows.

Conducting her own investigations and trials, she’s out on the hunt,
righting wrongs in honor of the victims and their surviving families.

Outlaw revenge has its perils and she’s soon in the fight of her
life.

Sometimes a killer’s own survivors also go on the hunt.

Having kicked their hornet’s nest, Izzy is desperate to take them
out.

Does she have what it takes to battle off her own demons?

Can she stop those who want her dead? 

About the Author

Greg Jolley

Greg Jolley earned a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of San
Francisco and lives in the very small town of Ormond Beach, Florida. When
not writing, he researches historical crime, primarily those of the 1800s.
Or goes surfing.

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Book Four of the Maison de Danse Quartet

 

Suspense

Date Published: 12-01-2022

Publisher: Épouvantail Books

 

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What do you do when the legal system refuses to deliver justice?

Izzy knows.

Conducting her own investigations and trials, she’s out on the hunt,
righting wrongs in honor of the victims and their surviving families.

Outlaw revenge has its perils and she’s soon in the fight of her
life.

Sometimes a killer’s own survivors also go on the hunt.

Having kicked their hornet’s nest, Izzy is desperate to take them
out.

Does she have what it takes to battle off her own demons?

Can she stop those who want her dead? 

About the Author

Greg Jolley

Greg Jolley earned a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of San
Francisco and lives in the very small town of Ormond Beach, Florida. When
not writing, he researches historical crime, primarily those of the 1800s.
Or goes surfing.

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Book Three: The Maison de Danse Quartet

Suspense

Date Published: 08-01-2022

Publisher: Épouvantail Books

 

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Private investigator Joy Nakamura is working the strangest cold case of her
career, the 1999 disappearance of the five Sanger children. Working the old
files, she tries to make sense of a twisted and clearly delusional interview
within the records, the closest thing to a confession or explanation.
Fighting her personal demons and ruinous alcoholism, she latches onto a clue
and goes on the hunt.

The trail leads Joy to Maison de Danse, a family compound in Ormond Beach.
Gaining access,

she questions Bo and Jangles Danser, a  handsome man with two distinct
personalities: one well-mannered and kind; the other vicious and deadly.
They are soon entangled in lies and deceits as she presses on with the
investigation, determined to find out what happened to the five
children.

When she next meets Izzy Danser, her world is turned upside-down as the
mystery gets dark and menacing. Caught up in the family’s
ménage, she’s drawn into their eccentric lives and secrets,
desperate to discover what happened to the Sanger children. As she draws
closer to the answer, a long black shadow threatens to consume her.

Risking her life and sanity, Joy will stop at nothing until the killer is
made to pay for his crimes.

 

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Chapter One

 

Volusia County Sheriff’s Office

Case# 1503207

Unsolved Homicide

Evidence Item: 1747-A

 

Suspect Statement Anonymously Received

 

The world ended on Tuesday, June 3, 1959, at 4:17 a.m. EST. A new form of an electro-magnetic pulse was the cause. By my calculations, it took twenty-seven seconds to round the planet. The effect was instantaneous. The world population that year was 2,979,576,185. You can look it up. In those twenty-seven seconds, that number was cut by ninety-nine percent.

Human life was erased—ended—and no continent was spared. The President in the Oval Office. A housewife at the stove. A child in a rice field in China. No matter what they were doing, all 2.9 billion dropped dead in their tracks. If it could hear, if it had ears, it died. Man and animal tumbled like rows of dominoes.

The pulse sounded blue. I’m not sure why. It was invisible, of course. Immediately following was a screech of electric silver that lasted less than a minute. Then nothing. All channels were silent. I was at the radios, monitoring all three frequencies. The signal room was at the back of the helm.

“You hear that?” I turned to my right.

Seaman James ‘Jimmy’ Cavanagh was a big boy, weighing in at an easy two hundred and forty pounds, head like a white eggplant with a tuft of blond hair never staying down. He had a wide mouth, soft chin, tiny eyes, and a mumble, except when on the radio. Then his voice became crisp and decisive. 

He was already dead, headset in his hands, head back, mouth yawned open to expel his ghost. It had been nearly eleven months since I last saw a dead body. This was the first death I hadn’t had a hand in.

After unplugging, I draped the cloth cord over my shoulder and went to the helm fronting the wheelhouse. Captain Collins and NCO Hanson had both crumbled to the deck before the chart table. They lay side by side facing each other, looking like two fallen dance partners. Both were dead as can be.

 Not so, sonar specialist, Fabian Andreoli. Fabian—a hoot, right? He was gawking at the dead officers, having spun his chair around from the radars screens. Fabian was movie star handsome—tall, skeletal thin, black hair with a wave always spilling onto his brow. All the blood had drained from his lovely face, replaced with a sickly pallor.

His eyes rose to mine as I entered.

“What just happened?” he asked me. “It swept the screen for less than a second. Then they fell.”

“Some kind of EMP, I think.”

“Are they?”

I kneeled before the two fallen officers, taking each of their wrists for Fabian’s benefit. I already knew the answer.

“Dead. Dead as doorknobs.”

“Dead? But the electronics, the ship is still running. I don’t understand…”

“I’m going to go look for others. Seaman Jimmy died beside me.”

“Why didn’t it kill you and me?”

“I don’t know. Maybe it still will. Help me search?”

 “Go ahead. I’ve got the tender boat coming in.” There was both sadness and fear in his eyes.

He swiveled his chair from the view of the two dead bodies to monitor the arrival of the supply boat.

 

 

About the Author

Greg Jolley

Greg Jolley earned a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of San
Francisco and lives in the very small town of Ormond Beach, Florida. When
not writing, he researches historical crime, primarily those of the 1800s.
Or goes surfing.

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Book Three: The Maison de Danse Quartet

Suspense

Date Published: 08-01-2022

Publisher: Épouvantail Books

 

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Private investigator Joy Nakamura is working the strangest cold case of her
career, the 1999 disappearance of the five Sanger children. Working the old
files, she tries to make sense of a twisted and clearly delusional interview
within the records, the closest thing to a confession or explanation.
Fighting her personal demons and ruinous alcoholism, she latches onto a clue
and goes on the hunt.

The trail leads Joy to Maison de Danse, a family compound in Ormond Beach.
Gaining access,

she questions Bo and Jangles Danser, a  handsome man with two distinct
personalities: one well-mannered and kind; the other vicious and deadly.
They are soon entangled in lies and deceits as she presses on with the
investigation, determined to find out what happened to the five
children.

When she next meets Izzy Danser, her world is turned upside-down as the
mystery gets dark and menacing. Caught up in the family’s
ménage, she’s drawn into their eccentric lives and secrets,
desperate to discover what happened to the Sanger children. As she draws
closer to the answer, a long black shadow threatens to consume her.

Risking her life and sanity, Joy will stop at nothing until the killer is
made to pay for his crimes.

 

About the Author

Greg Jolley

Greg Jolley earned a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of San
Francisco and lives in the very small town of Ormond Beach, Florida. When
not writing, he researches historical crime, primarily those of the 1800s.
Or goes surfing.

Contact Links

Website

Facebook

Twitter @gfjolle

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