Yatsuhashi for Lance

by Edith Maxwell

Overview

In this short story Elise Chase, about to start a prestigious graduate program in Baltimore, is winding down a quiet life in Japan, teaching English and studying Japanese as she lives with her Navy boyfriend. Their rakish friend Lance flirts with Elise and then asks her to receive a package his sister mails from the States.

But the package contains drugs and things go terribly wrong. An embittered Elise finds a way years later to send Lance a sweet package of revenge.

This story first appeared as "Obake for Lance" in RIPTIDE by Level Best Books (2004). Elise is a major character in SPEAKING OF MURDER by Tace Baker, Edith Maxwell's pen name (Barking Rain Press, September 2012).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044235434
Publisher:	Edith Maxwell
Publication date:	01/05/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	364 KB

About the Author

Agatha Award winning author Edith Maxwell writes the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries and award-winning short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she pens the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. Maxwell lives with her beau north of Boston, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook. She blogs at Mystery Lovers' Kitchen twice a month and every weekday with the other Wicked Authors (wickedauthors.com). She hopes you'll find her at www.edithmaxwell.com and on social media under both names.