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Category:
Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: First Strike Productions
Type: Fiction
Pages: 105
Price: $0.99 (eBook)
SFPD Inspector Shelly Steele solves a rock star's murder on the VIP floor of a San Francisco Luxury Hotel. The ex-wife? The ex-partner? The ex-Record Label owner?
A shotgun blast to the face had turned the original Hector Belus painting on the hotel wall behind the victim’s body into something by Jackson Pollock. Until half an hour ago he had been a male Caucasian in his 50s, dressed only in a black and red silk kimono, laying on top of the bed in suite 1417 of San Francisco’s elegant St. Hopkins Hotel. Most of the bedclothes were on the floor, so the silk sheets and luxurious mattress underneath him had absorbed most of his blood. On either side of where his face used to be, buzz cut gray hair. Whoever he was before most of his head was blown off, now he was just the victim of an active crime scene. A police photographer with body ink hiding just under his sleeves snapped digital shots and a CSI tech woman dressed as if she’d been interrupted on a date dusted for prints while the Assistant Coroner, whose clothing looked as if he’d slept in them, did a preliminary examination of the guest of honor.
Homicide Inspector Shelly Steele heard retching sounds from the back of the suite and turned to her shiny new partner, “Who’s that? Friend of the victim?”
“First cop on the scene,” Detective Ben Wu looked down to his notebook, “Patrolman John Salazar. Responded to a 10-57, shots fired.. Which seems to be some sort of mix up, because the Housekeeping Engineer...”
SFPD Homicide Inspector Shelly Steele investigates the murder of a rock star in an elegant hotel. His ex-partner? His ex-wife? His ex-record label owner? Her new partner Detective Ben Wu tries to keep her from shooting anyone... else, in this mystery novella introducing Shelly Steele.
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