Chris Rogers, Author

Slice of Life

Dixie Flannigan, Houston bounty hunter, is “willing to get down and dirty with the lowest of the low in order to land her man.”* But this time she’s pursuing a young woman, and the chase takes Dixie deep into a family’s bloodiest secrets.

Dixie’s nephew, Ryan, the one person who can turn her crime-hardened heart to warm taffy, downloads a WANTED notice from the Internet offering a $30,000 reward for the whereabouts of felony theft suspect Gennae Thompson. One of Ryan’s online buddies spotted Thompson headed toward Houston. Convinced his tough, clever Aunt Dixie will round up the thief before sundown, Ryan is champing to split the bounty.

And Dixie would move mountains to live up to Ryan's unshakable faith in her abilities. But scarcely home from a long hot trip transporting a bail jumper back to justice, she’s looking forward to a romantic Galveston weekend with the other important man in her life. Her already shaky relationship with Parker Dann might not survive another postponement.

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In Dixie’s ten years as a state prosecutor, she saw guilt in every guise imaginable—old, young, rich, poor, dumb, brilliant—so nothing really surprises her. She predicts 20-year-old Gennae is destined to waste her best years sitting in a nasty little room with bars. And having put away too many offenders who might’ve been saved if someone had ladled good sense into their stubborn brains before they hardened to concrete, Dixie can’t help hoping the girl falls into the hands of an obliging cop.

The WANTED poster claims Gennae likes to gamble. Knowing that habits draw people to familiar territory like wild game to a watering hole, Dixie decides to drop in at the only two race tracks in the area. How long can it take to scan the parking lots for the suspect’s car? With luck, she’ll find nothing, yet making the effort will appease Ryan’s expectations, and she’ll still make her date with Parker Dann.

But bingo! Dixie spots the Arkansas license plate at the dog track. Reluctantly, she continues her search at the betting lanes and, despite a clever disguise, homes in on her quarry. Before Dixie can summon an obliging cop, the girl runs again. Dixie stays hard on Gennae’s trail until she vanishes into a ground fog that covers the Galveston highway.

Abandoning the chase to salvage her evening with Parker, Dixie wonders why Gennae drove so deliberately in the only direction that offered little chance of permanent escape…Galveston Island. And the haunted expression she saw in Gennae’s eyes gives Dixie an uneasy feeling in the pit of her stomach. She’s seen that look on runaways, street kids and frightened animals.

And, long ago, in her own mirror…

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* New York Post

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