Brooklyn Heat
By D. James Eldon
GENRE: Crime Fiction
BLURB:
When a little girl is found brutally
murdered, veteran NYPD homicide detectives Hiro Masimoto and Ryan Sullivan are
determined, against all odds, to solve the case.
In the midst of the worst heat wave
in New York City’s history and with personal and professional pressures
mounting, the detectives pursue the mother’s ex-boyfriend and former criminal,
Nick DeSantis.
But DeSantis, a two-time felon, has
skipped town and the detectives struggle to collect enough hard evidence to
extradite him before he slips completely out of their grasp.
With a cast of outlaw characters and
more twists and turns than a coiled spring, Brooklyn Heat delivers a taut
thriller of the highest caliber.
EXCERPT:
Detective Hiro Masimoto makes his way through the gaggle of spectators, approaches the yellow police tape stretched loosely between the railings at the foot of the brownstone steps. He runs an absent hand through his cropped, jet-black hair, then bends his lanky six-foot-two-inch frame under the tape. Despite the heat, he wears an immaculately pressed dark-blue suit, crisp white shirt, and geometrically patterned blue and white tie. A gold shield hangs from his breast pocket.
Detective Hiro Masimoto makes his way through the gaggle of spectators, approaches the yellow police tape stretched loosely between the railings at the foot of the brownstone steps. He runs an absent hand through his cropped, jet-black hair, then bends his lanky six-foot-two-inch frame under the tape. Despite the heat, he wears an immaculately pressed dark-blue suit, crisp white shirt, and geometrically patterned blue and white tie. A gold shield hangs from his breast pocket.
“Hey,
Maxi,” the uniform standing at the top of the stairs says, taking a pull on his
cigarette as the detective walks up to meet him.
“Hey,
Ralphie. What’s the deal?” Masimoto asks in his patient way, as if passing the
time, waiting for a train.
“Don’t
know really, but I think it’s murder,” Ralphie chuckles darkly, blowing smoke.
When Masimoto doesn’t respond, Ralphie frowns. “I wasn’t first on the scene.
McNally and Dugan were. Dugan said to wait here for the Dicks.”
“OK,
well, I’m here now. Medical Examiner on the way?”
“Don’t
know.”
“Right,
so, what do you know?” Masimoto asks.
“It’s
been three weeks without a drop of rain, and today’s gonna be another scorcher.
Weatherman says hazy, hot, and humid. There’s a bit of a panic over the
temperature as no one can recall it ever being this hot this early in the year.
It’s been so hot for so long, the murder rate has dropped to its lowest since
the city’s been keeping track. People are just too hot to bother,” Ralphie says
with a wink, a nod, and a puff of his cigarette.
AUTHOR Bio:
D. James Eldon is a poet, novelist, and short-story writer from New York
City. His work has been published online and in print, in the US, Canada, and
Europe, in both English and French.
His debut novel, All The Way Gone, the first of the Brooklyn Homicide
Investigations, is available as an ebook and paperback in English as well as
paperback in French (under the title Sur Le Fil).
The latest Brooklyn Homicide Investigation, Brooklyn Heat, is available
now in both ebook and paperback.
And, in 2017, look for the third Brooklyn Homicide Investigation, The
Pope’s Guard.
Author Links:
Website - www.djameseldon.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/djameseldon
Twitter - @djameseldon
Brooklyn Heat Purchase Links:
Kindle (& paperback) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JH4FRVQ
Nook (& paperback)-
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brooklyn-heat-d-james-eldon/1124360495
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