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Chapters (95)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. One
  6. Two
  7. Three
  8. Four
  9. Five
  10. Six
  11. Seven
  12. Eight
  13. Nine
  14. Ten
  15. Eleven
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Sixteen
  21. Seventeen
  22. Eighteen
  23. Nineteen
  24. Twenty
  25. Twenty-One
  26. Twenty-Two
  27. Twenty-Three
  28. Twenty-Four
  29. Twenty-Five
  30. Twenty-Six
  31. Twenty-Seven
  32. Twenty-Eight
  33. Twenty-Nine
  34. Thirty
  35. Thirty-One
  36. Thirty-Two
  37. Thirty-Three
  38. Thirty-Four
  39. Thirty-Five
  40. Thirty-Six
  41. Thirty-Seven
  42. Thirty-Eight
  43. Thirty-Nine
  44. Forty
  45. Forty-One
  46. Forty-Two
  47. Forty-Three
  48. Forty-Four
  49. Forty-Five
  50. Forty-Six
  51. Forty-Seven
  52. Forty-Eight
  53. Forty-Nine
  54. Fifty
  55. Fifty-One
  56. Fifty-Two
  57. Fifty-Three
  58. Fifty-Four
  59. Fifty-Five
  60. Fifty-Six
  61. Fifty-Seven
  62. Fifty-Eight
  63. Fifty-Nine
  64. Sixty
  65. Sixty-One
  66. Sixty-Two
  67. Sixty-Three
  68. Sixty-Four
  69. Sixty-Five
  70. Sixty-Six
  71. Sixty-Seven
  72. Sixty-Eight
  73. Sixty-Nine
  74. Seventy
  75. Seventy-One
  76. Seventy-Two
  77. Seventy-Three
  78. Seventy-Four
  79. Seventy-Five
  80. Seventy-Six
  81. Seventy-Seven
  82. Seventy-Eight
  83. Seventy-Nine
  84. Eighty
  85. Eighty-One
  86. Eighty-Two
  87. Eighty-Three
  88. Eighty-Four
  89. Eighty-Five
  90. Eighty-Six
  91. Eighty-Seven
  92. Acknowledgements
  93. About the Author
  94. Also by David Swinson
  95. Thank you for buying this ebook, published by Hachette Digital.

I take a bite of the sandwich. It’s good, but I’ve got serious cotton mouth and no appetite, making it hard to swallow. I drink water, lots of it. Force it down, just like I’ll use a few pills to force myself to sleep. Gotta try to live normal somehow.

“I’ll check the database again for those secondhand dealers, see if anything shows up. Still might be too early. We depend on the shopkeepers to enter the items, and you know how that can be.”

“Yeah. Most of them are nothing but legalized fencing operations.”

“You got that right. They serve a purpose, though—for us, I mean.”

“No problem with me stopping in some pawn shops or other record stores, right?”

“Of course not, but if you see what you suspect is yours, call me. Don’t talk to them. I’ll stop by, and if it’s good to go I’ll put a police hold on it.”

“And none of this fucking getting lost at Property Division, right?”

“It is going to be a bit different because it involves a homicide. Usually I just take a few photos of the property and get you to sign a release form and it’s yours. I’ll see what I can do, though—I mean, if we ever get to that point.”

“I got faith in you, my new best friend.”

“Ha! You’d better readjust that thinking.” And he finishes off one of the sandwich’s quarters.

“Thinking about it now, I might even have someone else’s stolen shit in my collection.”

“Most of the secondhand guys are all right. Mostly it’s the pawn shops and those rickety old corner thrift stores that make it hard on us.” He holds back on taking another bite, looks over at me like something’s been on his mind. “But seriously, Frankie, what’s with this PI shit? The work you did at Narcotics Branch? You could’ve been a consultant somewhere, one of those guys who interviews employees for major corporations or something like that. Six-figure shit.”

“Sounds like too much work to me. It’s not a bad gig, what I do. I work what I want when I want, and I’m not one of those dopey PIs who work for drug-dealing mopes and try to get them out of jail.”

“That’s good to hear. I’d hate having to consider you my enemy.”

I can’t respond to that.

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Sixteen