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Excerpt from "Dirty Scottsdale"

“Dirty Scottsdale” (in the PHOENIX NOIR anthology, editor Patrick Millikin)Copyright 2008 Diana Gabaldon [Excerpts may not be reposted, copied, or otherwise published without the express permission of the author. It's fine if you want to link to one, though.] “What. The. F***. Is. Going. On. Here?” said a voice behind me. Whoever it was had a pretty good Voice of Doom, too; it cut through the argument like a hot wire through ice-cream. I turned around to see a tall blond woman in a sunhat, a Hawaiian shirt flapping open over a white bikini. Chloe and Tyrone’s mother; the breast implants must be hereditary. “Cooney!” she barked. “What are you doing? What’s–” She caught sight of the guy in the pool and stopped dead, her mouth hanging open far enough for me to see that one of her molars was gold. I wondered if she had a diamond in it. Cooney, hearing his master’s voice, came trundling over, sweating and apologetic. “It’s OK, Pammy–” “Don’t call me Pammy! Who are […]