The Pressure of Darkness
“They were seated in the office, blinds lowered and lights high. Gina had proffered five aspirins and made coffee strong enough to lube a lawn mower. Burke held the ice close to the bruised rib on his right side. He cleared his throat, but carefully. "Your turn, run it down."Gina was wearing a tight tee shirt and jeans with a large belt and cowboy buckle. She was a night person anyway, so she was already focused. "Okay, we have a horror novelist who likes silly word games. He seems to have commi...tted suicide at the Universal Sheraton. Cuts off various body parts, anesthetizes his ass, and then starts up again. He does it all over several hours. The daughter probably wants more money from insurance, wants it to be foul play, so Bowden turns her on to you and me.""Check.""You go to toss the guy's house and somebody else has already been there, in fact is still there. There's a load of books on all kinds of spooky stuff, religious artifacts, a couple of hidden panels. He has some kind of symbols on pieces of paper in a hidden place, they get swiped.""Uh huh.""Lots of people hate Stryker, the daughter says.MoreLess
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