Burn Me Deadly: An Eddie LaCrosse Novel

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St. Martin's Press, Feb 28, 2012 - Fiction - 352 pages

Above Angelina's Tavern in down-and-dirty Neceda you'll find the office of Eddie LaCrosse, a freelance sword jockey who, for twenty-five gold pieces a day, will take on any task short of murder for hire. Eddie's on his way back from a routine investigation when his horse almost runs down a half-naked blonde in serious trouble. Against his better judgment, he promises to protect the frightened young woman, only to find himself waylaid by unknown assailants and left for dead beside her mutilated body.

Eddie isn't the kind of guy to just let something like this pass. But who killed Laura Lesperitt? Eddie's quest for payback leads him to a tangled mystery involving a notorious crime lord, a backwoods dragon cult, royal scandals, and a duplicitous femme fatale who has trouble keeping her clothes on. As bodies pile up, attracting the unwelcome attention of the king's guards, Eddie must use all his wits if he hopes to survive....

 

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Section 1
11
Section 2
21
Section 3
41
Section 4
58
Section 5
69
Section 6
78
Section 7
87
Section 8
99
Section 19
206
Section 20
216
Section 21
224
Section 22
234
Section 23
245
Section 24
257
Section 25
263
Section 26
271

Section 9
105
Section 10
116
Section 11
127
Section 12
139
Section 13
147
Section 14
154
Section 15
165
Section 16
173
Section 17
186
Section 18
197
Section 27
279
Section 28
284
Section 29
289
Section 30
297
Section 31
309
Section 32
317
Section 33
322
Section 34
337
Section 35
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ALEX BLEDSOE is the author of the Eddie LaCrosse novels (The Sword-Edged Blonde, Burn Me Deadly, Dark Jenny, and Wake of the Bloody Angel), the novels of the Tufa (The Hum and Shiver, Wisp of a Thing, Long Black Curl, and Chapel of Ease), and the Memphis Vampires (Blood Groove and Girls with Games of Blood). Bledsoe grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He now lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

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