South of Nowhere: A Mystery (A Julia Kalas Mystery)

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by Minerva Koenig


  I heard from Benny regularly, and every month or so, Steve and I made the drive up to Azula to visit Maines, who did move in with Audra, much sooner than his physical therapists predicted would be possible. It was a crowded house for a man in a wheelchair, but they made do, and every time I visited, Maines and I spent an obligatory hour bickering about my future. He’d gotten some speech back, including a new propensity toward swearing, but not enough to win an argument against me. It didn’t stop him from trying. He told me I was wasting my talent with all this spiritual crap, and that eventually I’d stumble across another body, and have to use my goddamn brain again.

  While I waited to see if he was right, I found myself enjoying things that were downright prosaic: not having to wash my hair because I’d shaved it all off; wearing the same thing every day; changing sheets and filling up gallon water bottles for tired and thirsty Mexican families on their way to El Norte. It wasn’t an exciting life, but it felt kind of good to be bored for a change. I doubted that I’d want to do it forever, but I didn’t have to decide that now. Forever would get here soon enough.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Minerva Koenig is a licensed Texas architect who runs her own one-woman practice specializing in old houses. When not architecting or writing, she likes to sew, read, play chess, do yoga, dance, wrangle cats, and fight the patriarchy. Koenig lives in Taylor, Texas.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Chapter 51

  Chapter 52

  Chapter 53

  Chapter 54

  About the Author

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  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.

  An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.

  SOUTH OF NOWHERE. Copyright © 2016 by Minerva Koenig. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

  Cover photograph © Jesús Alfredo García Espinoza

  The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

  ISBN 978-1-250-05195-0 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-1-4668-5267-9 (e-book)

  e-ISBN 9781466852679

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  First Edition: February 2016

 

 

 


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