Silence is Golden
Grace Quincey
Copyright © 2018 Grace Quincey
All rights reserved
First Edition
PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.
New York, NY
First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc. 2018
ISBN 978-1-64424-966-6 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-68456-160-5 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-64424-968-0 (Digital)
Printed in the United States of America
Table of Contents
Dedicated to my daughter, Deborah Anne Quincey
Acknowledgments
Without the inspiration and constant encouragement of a very wonderful lady, Cathy Picaggi, this novel would never have been completed.
Also thanks to David Lutz, who encouraged me to finish the novel and also kept me in line for proper grammar throughout.
Page Publishing employees have been great in guiding me in publishing my first novel.
Chapter 1
Dan
The day started off with nothing but problems. He awoke with another damnable headache. Putting one foot over the edge of the bed, he headed for the aspirin.
God, he thought, it isn’t enough to have to listen all day to the problems of my ever-so-innocent, idiotic clients, but to do this with this pounding headache is ridiculous. Someday, someday real soon, it will be different, and I won’t have to listen to all that bull—someday I’ll be someone really first-class—the attorney general, maybe even governor of this great state!
Dan Thorndal had been a criminal lawyer now for the last four years, in private practice with one of the most prestigious law firms in the