MURDERVILLE
Once
they moved ahead with this, there would be no turning back. They'd be
murderers. Drawing deeply on his cigarette, he tried desperately to
figure another way, praying some radical, road-less-traveled idea would
miraculously present itself. But after an agonizing moment of fruitless
appraisal, he sighed and curtly nodded his head. The men moved back
toward the trunk of the car pushing with a mighty grunt. the car rocked
and groaned then slipped partly over the lip of the cliff, its
destination a six-hundred foot plunge straight down to the rocky
lakeshore below. The car scraped bottom again as it moved slowly to the
very cusp of eternity. Just at that final moment a small, fluttering
hand rose above the back of the rear seat. Then the pale face of the
boy pressed against the side window. The shock of it drove every other
thought from his mind. The kid was awake! This was not supposed to
happen. Involuntarily, he reached out for the boy, even as the car
teetered, then tipped downward. Call it off! But the car had dropped
its nose, and now the steep angle of its posture, plus the shriek of
grinding metal, announced its fate. Too late. The car slid over the
edge of the world and disappeared. He thought he heard a faint scream
just as the car dropped from sight. In moments it was over. A long
silence...followed by a shattering crunch...then the muffled whump of
the explosion, and finally the fireball that followed. ...thus begins
MURDERVILLE, the latest mystery featuring Lou Corso, the tough ex-LAPD
cop, security expert, and champion of battered women.
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A chance encounter in a favorite restaurant
sends a mild mannered man into a panic. Memories from his past,
unspeakable memories, flood his mind as he recognizes a man he
considers a devil-pure evil. What to do? He confronts the stranger, a
tall, elegant man with a twisted ear, and follows him into the street
but can't keep up as the stranger drives away. He needs help and he
knows who to go to. Lou Corso, ex LAPD police detective and current
security company chief, is at home alone, dozing in his chair when a
scratching at his door wakes him. Ever wary, Lou pauses at the door, a
faint "help me" sends a cold chill up his spine. He opens the door to
find a former colleague, a PI he worked on a case with, in a bloody
heap on his doorstep. Lou carries the severely injured man inside and
strains to listen as the victim whispers a few words to him before the
EMTs carry him away. A man's name. The client or the killer? Lou wants
to find out who attacked his friend, and his instincts tell him he
needs to hurry because he may be next.
