Tears Don't Become Me

by Sharon G. Clark

GW (Georgia Wilhelmina) DIAMOND, Private Investigator, dealt in missing children cases – only. It didn’t alter her own traumatic childhood experience, but she could try to keep other children from the same horrors. She’d left her past and her name behind her. Or so she thought. This case was putting her in contact with people she had managed to keep a distant and barely civil relationship with for fifteen years. Now the buried past was returning to haunt her. When Sheriff Matthews of Elk Grove, Missouri, asked her to take a case involving a teenaged runaway girl, she believed it would be no different from any other. Until Matthews explained she had to take a cop as partner or no deal. A cop who just happened to be the missing girl’s aunt…

ERIN DUNBAR, received the call concerning her niece from an old partner, Frank Matthews. It should have been from her sister, but their estrangement, compounded by her having moved to Detroit, kept that from happening. Now she would have to work with a PI. One had nearly killed her and Frank years ago; she expected this one would be no different. Matters were only made worse by discovering it was a she PI – a Looney-tune one who gave new and literal meaning to: Hands Off. For the sake of her niece, Erin would put up with just about anything, until…

GW seemed to be strangely affected by this case and Erin, to her chagrin and amazement, was strangely affected by her. If Erin could solve GW’s past, give her hope, could they have a hope of finding her niece?