Brooklyn Heat
by D.
James Eldon
GENRE: Crime
Fiction
BLURB:
When a little girl is
found brutally murdered, veteran NYPD homicide detectives Hiro Masimoto and
Ryan Sullivan are determined, against all odds, to solve the case.
In the midst of the
worst heat wave in New York City’s history and with personal and professional
pressures mounting, the detectives pursue the mother’s ex-boyfriend and former
criminal, Nick DeSantis.
But DeSantis, a
two-time felon, has skipped town and the detectives struggle to collect enough
hard evidence to extradite him before he slips completely out of their grasp.
With a cast of outlaw
characters and more twists and turns than a coiled spring, Brooklyn Heat
delivers a taut thriller of the highest caliber.
Excerpt:
“Hey, Detective,” Pete Dugan says,
looking exhausted and nervous.
“What’s up?” Masimoto asks, stepping
further into the hallway, glancing at the black nameplate on Dugan’s chest and
scratching it in his pad.
“Well, my partner Jimmy and I
responded to a call. Someone heard screaming at this address. When we get here,
nothing’s happening. We ring the bell, knock, but nothing. Neighbor who called
was outside. She had a key. We enter, announce. Nothing. Not a sound. Jimmy, ya
know, he dives right in. I take upstairs, he’s down here.” Dugan stops, looking
around like a lost child.
“So, where’s he now?” Masimoto asks
quietly, noticing Sgt. Cappalleri standing next to him.
“Basement. With the lady. I tried to
go down there, but he bit my head off. I never seen him like this. Scared the
fuck out of me.”
“The lady, she have a name?”
“Neighbor who let us in said Lisa
and mentioned a daughter. Jimmy said there were two downstairs. One dead, one
in shock. I just saw him and the lady.”
“You check the rest of the house?”
“Yeah, empty.”
“OK,” Masimoto says jotting all this
in his pad. He notices Sgt. Cappalleri looking through the mail on a side table
to their right. “You call the M.E.?”
Dugan shakes his head. “Just the
paramedics and you.”
The Sergeant holds up a few letters.
“All these are addressed to a Lisa Serrano, probably your lady in the
basement.”
“Thanks,” Masimoto says.
AUTHOR BIO:
D. James Eldon is a poet, novelist, and short-story
writer from New York City. His work has been published online and in print, in
the US, Canada, and Europe, in both English and French.
His debut novel, All The Way Gone, the first of the
Brooklyn Homicide Investigations, is available as an ebook and paperback in English
as well as paperback in French (under the title Sur Le Fil).
The latest Brooklyn Homicide Investigation, Brooklyn
Heat, is available now in both ebook and paperback.
And, in 2017, look for the third Brooklyn Homicide
Investigation, The Pope’s Guard.
Author Links:
Brooklyn Heat Purchase Links:
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