DEAD DRUNK
Sacramento Homicide Detectives Harold “Harker” Smith and Dennis Steele are called to a horribly smashed corpse stretched on clean concrete behind a shopping center. They conclude a murderer stretched the unconscious victim around the front wheel and tire of a heavy vehicle, trussed him like a mummy with duct tape, then awakened him and slowly…
RUDE MEN DIE
On an interstate highway vehicles collect in line behind a left lane bandit who refuses to move over between the trucks and let them by. One angry follower tails the bandit to his destination, blocks him in his car, sits in his front passenger seat, and pushes a snub-nosed .38 into his chest. He orders…
RETALIATE
Three seemingly unrelated murders happen in Sacramento a month apart. After he and his partner are unable to solve the third, Police Homicide Detective Sergeant Harold ‘Harker’ Smith meets with his supervisor, his former partner, Captain Dennis Steele, and reports his belief the murders are related by motive. One murder victim that put his wife…