by Tom Turner
“I don’t see ’em coming up with any good prints,” Crawford told Ott. “Best shot’s probably DNA off that hoodie.”
Ott nodded. “Guys were pros. Nice clean job.”
Crawford walked toward the cars and went past Dominica McCarthy, who had just finished bagging the hands of Darryl Bill. She was even better looking close up.
He nodded.
She nodded back.
Crawford took down the license plate number of a Mitsubishi two-door that he’d seen when he first pulled up. It looked like a nineteen-year-old kid’s car. Black with bald tires, low to the ground. He took off a glove and touched the car’s hood with the back of his hand. It was warm. Been there an hour and a half or so. He shined his flashlight inside. The car was surprisingly neat except for one Magic Hat beer in the cup holder. Then he walked back to the crime scene and approached Dominica McCarthy, who was bagging the hoodie.
“’Scuse me,” he said.
She looked up. Big, emerald-green eyes and sharp, high cheekbones.
“You might want to dust that black car over there,” he said, pointing. “The Mitsubishi.”
“Thank you, Detective, already did.”
Crawford nodded and walked over to his car.
On the ride back to the station, he was amped up. He was leaving white-collar crime and Mickey Mouse bullshit in the rearview mirror. Dick and Jan from Buffalo bunking for free in some dead guy’s house, that was someone else’s job now.
He finally had himself a murder. Something he’d never admit he’d missed.
But he had.
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Also by Tom Turner
CHARLIE CRAWFORD PALM BEACH MYSTERIES
Palm Beach Nasty
Palm Beach Poison
Palm Beach Deadly
Palm Beach Bones
Palm Beach Pretenders
Palm Beach Predator
Palm Beach Broke
Palm Beach Bedlam
Palm Beach Blues
NICK JANZEK CHARLESTON MYSTERIES
Killing Time in Charleston
Charleston Buzz Kill
STANDALONES
Broken House
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About the Author
A native New Englander, Tom dropped out of college and ran a bar in Vermont…into the ground. Limping back to get his sheepskin, he then landed in New York where he spent time as an award-winning copywriter at several Manhattan advertising agencies. After years of post-Mad Men life, he made a radical change and got a job in commercial real estate. A few years later he ended up in Palm Beach, buying, renovating and selling houses while getting material for his novels. On the side, he wrote Palm Beach Nasty, its sequel, Palm Beach Poison, and a screenplay, Underwater.
While at a wedding, he fell for the charm of Charleston, South Carolina. He spent six years there and completed a yet-to-be-published series set in Charleston. A year ago, Tom headed down the road to Savannah, where he just finished a novel about lust and murder among his neighbors.
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