George Martin and Mike Foster have been best friends since childhood, but recent events have brought them even closer together: Mike has moved into George’s house now that George’s unfaithful boyfriend has been kicked out. It puts Mike in a pinch, because he’s always loved George -- maybe more than a best friend should.<br><br>George doesn’t suspect Mike’s feelings, being wrapped up in his job as the youngest lieutenant in the Jacksonville sheriff’s office and investigating a series of murders. But it will all come to a head when George is stalked by a psycho and Mike steps in front of a bullet meant for George. George then realizes there’s much more to their relationship than he thought.

Bodies of Work

“By the way, Lieutenant,” Captain Plott said, “whatever happened to your serial murderer for hire?”


“We don’t know for sure where he is now,” I said, “but we know he was in Rio de Janeiro in February.”


“How did you find that out? That is, if it’s not a secret.”


“Pure dumb luck,” I said, and I told him about taping the parade and watching it a couple of months later.


“The FBI determined that an SUV, that had been abandoned in a long-term parking lot at the Orlando Airport, had been leased under a false identity. When the abandoned car was found, the leasing company tried to contact their customer and found that he’d vanished. As it turns out, he’d never really existed. They ran a computer program comparing the photo from the parade with photographs from all passports that had been presented at the airport that weekend and got a hit. The guy flew from Orlando to Madrid and presumably from there to Rio.”


“What can they do about it?” he said.


Chapter 144