title: After a Dead Dog: Dangerous Love, Dark Secrets, Sudden Death
author: Perseus
description: Set on the west coast of Scotland, Murray's promising debut thriller reunites Iain Lewis, a poet turned intermittently employed sitcom writer, with his married ex-girlfriend, Carole, at her mother's funeral. Carole is trapped in an unhappy marriage with Irish mob-connected Duncan Ferguson, who now runs her family's fisheries business. Both her parents died under mysterious circumstances, and her enigmatic brother, Martin, is clearly hiding something. After the wake, Iain returns home to find his house burgled and a briefcase containing a gun, cocaine and cash left behind. Iain doesn't trust the local constable, so he seeks help from a hard-drinking buddy, Glasgow crime reporter Dougie Henderson. Iain later comes upon the body of "harmless alkie" Danny McGovern on a deserted beach, and soon finds himself stalked by two thugs linked to Ferguson. Murray delivers pounding suspense with a violent if not completely surprising conclusion. <I>(May)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  **His Wild Heart**
  
  
  **Colleen French**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 1993, 2018 by Colleen French. All rights reserved. No part of this
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  of The Evan Marshall Agency, 1 Pacio Court, Roseland, NJ 07068-1121,
  
  
  [evan@evanmarshallagency.com](mailto:evan@evanmarshallagency.com).
  
  
  Version 1.0
  
  
  This work is a novel. Any similarity to actual persons or events is purely
  coincidental.
  
  
  Published by The Evan Marshall Agency. Originally published by Kensington
  Publishing Corp., New York, under the title _Flames of Love_ and under the
  name Colleen Faulkner.
  
  
  Cover by The Killion Group
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Sherri,  
  
  
  who kept the young hounds at bay so I could work.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## **CONTENTS**
  
  
  [Prologue](part0005.html#4OIQ0-fa363811cab940789c6c9052d9efaa1e)
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0006.html#5N3C0-fa363811cab940789c6c9052d9efaa1e)
  
  
  [Cha