RELEASE DAY IS HERE!
Pieces
By Author Patrick Heffernan
Genre: Fiction Murder Mystery
It was supposed to have been just another routine night
for Mike Lowe, a newly-promoted sergeant working Homicide in the police
department. But then the call came, the
call that would forever change his life, and the lives of so many people
surrounding him. An anonymous call
reports that body parts are scattered all about a vacant house.
When the police enter the house, incendiary devices go
off, killing more police on the scene.
Suddenly, Lowe finds himself in command of a task force he barely feels
qualified to lead. Among the prime
suspects are a fundamentalist church and a high-ranking police captain in his
very department. Lowe must find and stop
these people before they stop him as the killers continue escalating their game
…
With the warrant in hand, an officer checked the front
door, found it unlocked, and opened it.
“Jesus Motherfucking Christ,” the officer said. His name was Paul Morris. He was 22 years old and barely out of the
academy. Indeed, his FTO (field training
officer) had only signed off on him ten days before.
Lowe looked into the living room and groaned. He saw parts of bodies and four human heads
at first glimpse.
“Okay, back out of here and let’s wait on the Crime Scene
Unit to do their thing,” Lowe ordered.
“I think this one is officially my case, Officer Morris.”
“Jesus, you’re welcome to it,” Morris said, and then
darted to the porch railing and hurled a huge spew of vomit into the flowerbed
before walking away on unsteady legs.
Moments later the crime scene team arrived with a huge Dodge Sprinter
van piloted by one member while four others arrived in an Expedition. They entered the home with cameras and began
their task while Lowe waited.
But twenty minutes later the house exploded. A call from one disposable phone was placed
to another disposable phone, but this was wired to a little transmitter that
sent a signal to a dozen thermite devices scattered about the house, several
conveniently centered near gas lines.
The explosion and fire were cataclysmic.
One CSU member near a second-floor window leapt from the window to the
ground, breaking three vertebrae and sustaining a closed head injury on
impact. Three others were killed in the
explosion. The fifth, near the door,
burst out of the door with his clothes ablaze, and two cops blasted at him with
fire extinguishers while Knox got on the radio for two ambulances and for the
Fire Department to send in the world.
I'm an author living in the Houston-Galveston area. My writing is, as you can see, eclectic, and I love what I do, so you'll see plenty more from me in times to come.
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