FREE: Scoop/ Kit Fraizier/ 2006

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Cauley MacKinnon made the mistake of dating her boss. So now she has transferred to the Sentinel's West Austin satellite office and been sentenced to writing the obituaries instead of real news. When her childhood pal, Scott "Scooter" Barnes, a former Dallas Cowboy, calls threatening suicide, Cauley goes to talk him out of it. She thinks it is odd for SWAT and FBI to be surrounding the shed Scooter is in, but manages to skirt by and reach her friend. She succeeds in talking Scooter out of suicide, after reminiscing about old times and hearing about his wife leaving him. So, no front page story and Cauley is back to being the Obituary Babe. But shortly thereafter Scooter is found dead in his exotic pet store. It looks like suicide, but Cauley is not too sure about that. It seems that everyone wants to know exacting what Scooter said to her in the shed. This includes, but is not limited to, FBI Agent Tom Logan, US Customs Agent John Fiennes, a mean one-eared thug, the Argentine mafia, and various media. Problem is that Scooter did not really tell her anything. Things get rough when she is almost kidnapped, drives into Lake Austin, followed by her house getting ransacked. Thanks to her new canine friend, Marlowe, and her aunt's rather indignant cat, Muse, some interesting clues turn up. Cauley MacKinnon is fast becoming a hysterical, trouble-prone obituary writer with huge crushes on a couple of cuties from two different branches of the US government