CARCASS TRADE - OkayAyers, NoreenSmokey Brandon, former striptease artist and cop, now works as a civilian employee of the Orange County, California, crime lab. She's a hard-living, tough-talking gal with an attitudebut she's damn good at her job and practically fearless when it comes to confront...
"Friends call me Smokey. I'm female, five five, bland blond, the right weight..."Jerry Dwyer was a good kid--friendly, helpful, a bit goofy, perhaps. And he deserved better than to be gunned down in his parents' convenience store--snuffed by a pair of "stop-and-rob" killers who enjoyed watching h...
That’s what a U.N. Special Envoy for Immigration Issues was saying on his sound bite that morning. Yes, yes, but does that have anything to do with our Juan Does? What would ol’ Stu have waiting for me today when I got into the lab? And now there was David. He knew one of them, even if slightly. ...
Gary got there two minutes after me and found me sitting on my hands. He sat across from me in a booth, facing the light, the sun bouncing off the white metal tables outside, constricting his pupils to almost nothing. Our surroundings of used brick, bleached oak, and shiny brass rails were a soot...