Everybody thought the banker surprised by car-jackers was dead and buried until a photograph of him taken by his captors turns up. If the banker is alive, then whose ashes are buried in his grave?Eddie's chase after the story takes him across many neighborhoods of his home and crime beat, Lowell,...
SPIKED – G+Mark Arsenault – 1st bookIn the fading manufacturing city of Lowell, Mass., Eddie Bourque, a political reporter for the shoddy Lowell Empire, looks into the brutal murder of his newspaper beat partner and rival, Danny Nowlin. Bourque suspects the killing is tied to a story Nowlin was w...
His hip ached. A lump on the back of his skull throbbed when he rolled over on it. He was stiff from sleeping on cement. The cold air had tempered overnight to something more seasonable, maybe forty degrees. The sun blazed brightly outside the shadow of the bridge. He lay ...
The six-car electric Amtrak coach ground down the tracks with a mesmerizing hum. The steel wheels made a tooting toy horn noise in the curves. The train motored past the windowless backsides of warehouses, under bridges scored by graffiti, past the stacks of used tires piled behind auto body shop...
Brill said. “So you two decided to meet up here, to hash it out?” Eddie stared at the dome light and tried to delete the mental image of Jimmy Whistle in the grave. He thought about Whistle’s son, Jimmy junior, who didn’t yet know that he had lost the father he barely reme...
The paper had covered the crash in the news pages, before the funeral arrangements had been made. Billy had avoided the news coverage. He had no choice but to read the obituary. He typed with clattering fury. PROVIDENCE—Heidi M. Ward, 20, a senior at the University of Rhode Island, originally fro...