Detective Hiro Masimoto makes his way through the gaggle of
spectators, approaches the yellow police tape stretched loosely between the
railings at the foot of the brownstone steps. He runs an absent hand through
his cropped, jet-black hair, then bends his lanky six-foot-two-inch frame under
the tape. Despite the heat, he wears an immaculately pressed dark-blue suit,
crisp white shirt, and geometrically patterned blue and white tie. A gold
shield hangs from his breast pocket.
“Hey, Maxi,” the uniform standing at the top of the stairs
says, taking a pull on his cigarette as the detective walks up to meet him.
“Hey, Ralphie. What’s the deal?” Masimoto asks in his
patient way, as if passing the time, waiting for a train.
“Don’t know really, but I think it’s murder,” Ralphie
chuckles darkly, blowing smoke. When Masimoto doesn’t respond, Ralphie frowns.
“I wasn’t first on the scene. McNally and Dugan were. Dugan said to wait here
for the Dicks.”
“OK, well, I’m here now. Medical Examiner on the way?”
“Don’t know.”
“Right, so, what do you know?” Masimoto asks.
“It’s been three weeks without a drop of rain, and today’s
gonna be another scorcher. Weatherman says hazy, hot, and humid. There’s a bit
of a panic over the temperature as no one can recall it ever being this hot
this early in the year. It’s been so hot for so long, the murder rate has
dropped to its lowest since the city’s been keeping track. People are just too
hot to bother,” Ralphie says with a wink, a nod, and a puff of his cigarette.
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.
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The
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retail price (the paperback through CreateSpace retails for $15.99, the
discount is $3.20, so the final price is $12.79). The discount will remain in
effect through October.
The ebook
retails for $4.99 and remains unchanged.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
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:
Website - www.djameseldon.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/djameseldon
Twitter - @djameseldon
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