FINE POINTS MALICE AND PAYBACK
Rookie Tucson Detective Andrew Coates who spent months going through several cold-case files connects investigation dots of three unsolved murders. With a fourth victim discovered his captain assigns the nervous novice. But when the harried detective begins to fall for the sister of a fifth victim, the mystery of his own life returns to haunt him. Abandoned at birth then raised in foster care he had no idea who he was... CHAPTER 1… “Fleming! Why the hell did you assign a possible serial murder case to someone as green as Coates?” Police Chief Pedro Perez shook his head, turning away. Outside his office window a tree lizard scurried up the trunk of a palm tree. “We have a fourth murder victim. And that victim has a related cause of death to three others!” The profile of his square chin and long slender nose was in silhouette, with the chief’s deeply receding hairline almost hidden in the shaded corner. “Budget cuts mainly, Chief.” Arthur Fleming