Hard Fall: A Gripping, Noir Detective Thriller (Thomas Blume Series Of Hard-Boiled Mysteries, Book 1) - Plot & Excerpts
I went into the office with the files on my family and went over it all again. There was nothing new, of course. They had died from the fire at the house. Sarah had been hit over the head first. No signs of rape or much of a struggle. Cloth under Tommy’s fingernails where it is assumed he fought off an attacker. Even at the age of ten, my son had been willing to die to protect his mother. And where had I been when they had been killed right in their very own home? I knew the answer. It was one that disgusted me and that I had been living with ever since. It was the sole reason for the guilt I carried — the reason that going through these files was like having someone suffocate me as I read. I’d been on the other side of the Atlantic. Sarah had once told me, “If you can’t do the smart thing, do the right thing”. What was the right thing to do here? Was I wasting my time by being halfway around the world to investigate her death? I grabbed a lunch of Pita and Falafel at Amir’s restaurant, partly because it was close but mostly because it was free, then I stayed in the office for ten hours.
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