It's not the dead body--Jack Leightner has seen hundred of bodies in his tour with the NYPD. It's not the dank setting--the narrow banks along Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal. So why does the sight of the fatally stabbed young man make the detective almost faint in the canal's tangled weeds? Jack doesn'...
Linda Vargas said to the manager of Daniel Lelo’s fish company. “A while back you had an accident where one of these big metal hooks went into the back of your hand. And now you’re saying that the same thing happened again, another accident in the exact same spot, and this time the hook just happ...
(He liked to get up at five A.M. so he could visit the gym before work. She liked the results on his lean body, but didn’t enjoy waking in an empty bed.) She sat there on his expensive leather couch, and dug down into the bowl she held on her lap, seeking the last few little clouds of popcorn bur...
Jack said, later that evening. “Just the way you like it.” He set the pizza box down on the coffee table in front of his landlord, along with a cold six-pack of Schaefer beer. The old man’s rather dingy front room was illuminated only by the flickering blue light of his huge old battleship of a T...