Chapter 6: Midnight Oil
Banter won’t hurt the shrink like the other women she has accidentally affected in her past: Marla, Trina, Bonita, Rolanda, and others whose names don’t end in the letter A. Sharon Shaw is a likable woman, of course. Proper. Exquisite. Delightful. Elegant. Without much baggage, if any. She puts a little spirit into Banter’s life, a bending realization that the world and Grayville aren’t as nasty as the human race thinks. Banter feels that Sharon is humble and honest and headstrong and cheerful. Someone that Banter likes, placing next to her heart.
She drives away from Sharon’s Tudor thinking: Sharon’s like no other woman I’ve ever met, except for Lolita Key. There are very few women like Key, though. Certainly, the psychiatrist cannot solve the slice-and-dice murd
