J. HarperC. J. Harper is the pseudonym of Plymouth, Minnesota, lawyer Charlie Rethwisch. His three previous stories for us all featured 1950s P.I. Darrow Nash. In 2009, the author was highly commended by the committee for Britain’s Debut Dagger Award for his as yet unpublished Nash novel. The judges particularly praised the book’s likable protagonist and “sexy 1950s Hollywood setting.” We hope that novel will be bought for U.S. publication soon. In the meantime, here’s a non-series C. J. Harper tale. The complete journal entries of professor james enright:Icarus is coming for me.I can feel it.Can sense it.It’s not paranoia.I know he’s coming.Because he knows I can see what he does. Can see the results of his depravity. The results of his madness.Icarus is coming for me.I am a psychic.It is not a gift.This is how it starts:I see the body from above. From the vantage point of God.At that moment, I know only two things: that I am awake and in bed. Nothing else has had time to register.That is how it starts.That is when the vision comes.The first one:The body is sprawled facedown on the rocks along the Mississippi River beneath the Short Line Railroad Bridge.
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