Category: Crime Publisher: Patrick Laughy
ISBN-10: 0987962825
Type: Fiction
Pages: 382
Copyright: April ,2012
ISBN-13: 9780987962829
Justice never retires. Ex-cops have had enough of the revolving door policy of the justice system and decide to take matters into their own hands.
No one is better equipped to commit perfect murders than the members of the Alumni, a group of retired police investigative specialists. Frustrated with the revolving door of the Canadian Justice System, they have decided to do something about it.
One small mistake can bring their whole operation crashing down, but with no immediate family and based on their advanced ages and physical conditions, they have nothing to lose.
An investigative newspaper crime reporter and a Police Inspector are each beginning to wonder about the high number of expiring ex-cons.
Will damage control allow the Alumni to continue with their work or will they be forced to face the very justice system they perceive as woefully flawed?
Excerpt
CHAPTER ONE
Finished with the hacksaw, he placed it onto the plastic-covered workbench and reached for the machete resting beside it. The well-honed blade had a residue of flesh and congealed blood clinging to it from his earlier labors.
The single bulb hanging from the ceiling left shadows in the tiny windowless workshop and he shifted slightly so he wasn’t standing in his own light as he arranged the severed leg along the length of the bench. Humming softly, he raised the machete and brought it down sharply. The blade entered the open wound, slipped cleanly through the fibula and tibia and easily severed the bottom part of the leg just below the knee.
Except for clean up and disposal, he was finished with this one and already looking forward to the next. This was his third and he was definitely getting better with practice. He’d been caught after the first two and spent eight years of his life behind bars but that was behind him. He’d learned his lesson and he was much more careful how he dealt with the remains of his pretty little girls now.
PI novel set in Manhattan during the 1980s when art galleries and model agencies were the two most glamorous businesses in the world. Dangerously well written.
Read Chapter 1 here: https://www.lit4u.com/art-and-beauty-chapter-1/
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