Rolly Shaw

Roland "Rolly" Shaw is a character in the fifth book of the Free Spirits series, Laurie's Liberation. A portly and bespectacled man, he is a private investigator based in San Antonio, and most of his clients are corporations seeking information on potential new hires or certain employees. Shaw tells Bridget Torjesen that he learned of her work as an escort while surveilling one of her clients, but that he never reported it to the company who hired him because it was not relevant to what he was investigating, and remarks to her that "discretion is as important in my profession as yours". Shaw also learned about Laurie Franklin's old identity during his investigation of the supposed embezzlement of funds from OrizaTech (which had retained him), but when he found that there was no embezzlement, and that Laurie's ex Abbie Nolan very likely had manipulated circumstances as a way of tracking her down, he quickly accepted the fiction of Vickie Burgess's death, even sharing it with San Antonio police after Abbie stole information from his office and stabbed his assistant Hector Alvarado.
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