Orange County Noir (Akashic Noir) - Plot & Excerpts
She could be standing at the next bus stop, or long gone out of my life. II should listen to Nana and head back to work. But instead I drive around Santa Ana looking for a little girl in the rain. The few who are out in this weather are huddled under bus stops next to their mothers or grandmothers, looking like pink and purple marshmallows in their puffy rain jackets.Go back to work. Even though I'll put another month on these boots, I need every cent of my pathetic paycheck as a news assistant with the Orange County Tribune.But I keep driving down East 1st Street toward the freeway as the rain and wind batter my car. Maybe the woman who took Pricila is her aunt and they're on a grand adventure to visit relatives in Mexico. Or Pricila is locked in the cold terror that she'll never see her own nana or mom again.A few minutes later, I'm dripping water at the front desk of Santa Ana PD."How may I help you?" a clerk asks without getting up from her desk."I need to report a missing child."I'm taken behind the counter with Officer Darrin Kravetz into an interview room.
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