After Hortensius left, Ky sat down at the small writing table he spent so much time at every day transferring the data in Sophus’s databanks into something usable by the Romans, when Lucilla unex...
2022-09-07 13:02:28 +0000 UTC View PostI had to hand it to Brent, our first show was much better organized and much larger than I’d originally expected. It was actually one of the clubs we’d looked at the other night, but hadn’t g...
2022-09-04 01:32:36 +0000 UTC View PostOutside Londinium
Ky looked over Ursinus’s reports. He’d liked the Legate back when he’d been an Optio, tasked with keeping Lucilla alive, but he missed Velius’s abil...
2022-09-01 01:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostKy made his way from meeting the Carthaginian general to Velius’s command tent. During the day, he was out among the lines, making sure his men were on guard for a Carthaginian counter-attack to ...
2022-08-29 15:05:29 +0000 UTC View Post“The Director was right about you,” Dayoub said, coming to stand next to Taylor on the steps outside the Federal Courthouse. “I honestly had my doubts after hearing about some of your other e...
2022-08-27 01:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostTaylor’s big exit did mean he couldn’t turn around and ask for her address but he’d worked with Whitaker long enough to know how to navigate the databases she used to track people down. It to...
2022-08-27 01:45:34 +0000 UTC View Post“What a clusterfuck,” Dayoub said as agents and local cops began shutting down the street.
The running gunfight meant the crime scene stretched across two blocks, through a restaurant and...
2022-08-23 18:38:04 +0000 UTC View PostSo COVID has hit my family, and it hit my wife particularly hard. I'm not testing positive yet, but I've developed a few symptoms, so hopefully that means it won't be bad for me and won't dis...
2022-08-16 02:13:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late, and Taylor had been going pretty much straight since being assigned this case three days before. Besides a very short night’s sleep in L.A. and sleeping on planes, he’d been awake ...
2022-08-14 02:17:51 +0000 UTC View PostSusan Marsh lived in the suburbs of Jersey City, not far from Ronald Reagan High School. She was younger than Mrs. Beacham , in her late sixties, and lived in a nicer area of town than Mrs. Beacham...
2022-08-10 03:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostKent called as I was leaving my training session with Victor. I was sore and a little bruised from his habit of whacking me with the pad every time I missed a block or didn’t time a hit right, an...
2022-08-05 19:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Let me guess. ‘Bonnie,’ is it?” Taylor said.
“We can go with that name for now. I have to say, you are about the most persistent cop I’ve ever dealt with. I was sure you’d run ...
2022-08-03 04:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostJersey City, New Jersey
Like the guy in Internet Crimes had said, the leads were thin. The agents back in the day had checked the name on the Vegas lease and determined it to...
2022-07-31 14:55:09 +0000 UTC View PostLondinium
“… Then what good are you?” Maharbaal yelled, inches from Caesius’s face.
“You wanted to know what my father and his lackey were up to, and I got yo...
2022-07-27 18:58:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole way back to the LA office, Taylor was still bothered about how she could possibly be tailing them. It seemed impossible. She couldn’t have known which vehicle the local office would hav...
2022-07-24 18:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostAfter dinner, Kat, Hanna and I went back to her aunt’s house to get ready while the rest of the band headed back to their apartment. Although the last time we’d been in Raleigh our club experie...
2022-07-21 03:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostI’d been ‘out on the town’ in Raleigh before, but we’d gone to clubs Victor had known about in the college part of town where every other building was a bar or nightclub. The place Kent had...
2022-07-18 14:40:18 +0000 UTC View PostOutside Londinium
“Launch!” the Roman optio screamed at the men gathered around the trebuchet.
Pulling a rope releasing the counterweight, the huge...
2022-07-15 00:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostRowan had been right. By Saturday night we were done with all but one song. He said he wanted to leave a little time on the last day to talk about the actual lineup of the songs on the record and l...
2022-07-11 23:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhitaker was right in saying the facility wasn’t a prison. Located in one of LA's suburbs and surrounded by houses and apartment complexes, the short red-brick building looked more like an urgent...
2022-07-08 21:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately for Taylor and Robles, Walsh was being held in San Diego and not Los Angeles, which meant a two-hour plus car ride. Taylor had lived most of his life on the East Coast, so he hadn’t...
2022-07-05 14:24:40 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately for Taylor, saying they needed to look into deaths surrounding the Amato family was followed by actually doing the work of digging through police files, obituaries, and newspaper arti...
2022-07-01 22:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two weeks was chaotic. Because Tessa no longer needed the protection of living with others, what with Lonnie being gone, she and I switched. We moved her into the apartment I was renting s...
2022-06-29 00:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Orville had said the DA would meet us Tuesday morning, I was expecting something like ten or eleven, not at eight while I was still at the station chatting with Al, who Orville had scheduled f...
2022-06-26 22:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Going Home is rapidly coming to a close and should be done at the end of the week. Just got the cover back and a few weeks before it releases, but here's a sneak peek at the cover.
Once...
2022-06-24 20:24:53 +0000 UTC View PostOrville showed up five minutes after I’d shot Lonnie. Thankfully, by the time Lonnie had shown up, pretty much everyone had gone. Beyond Tessa, Rosita, my mother and myself, the only person still...
2022-06-24 20:14:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days were a blur. Mom basically shut down, alternating between hours of crying, and just sitting, staring blankly ahead, just zoned out. Although they had a family plot, that my mother...
2022-06-22 17:26:34 +0000 UTC View PostDinner was pretty busy, to the point where I was even put to work putting plates of finished food together and packing to-go containers for orders. I marveled again how Rosita managed to do all thi...
2022-06-20 23:20:37 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I parked in front of my parents’ house, I left her sitting in the back seat of the cruiser while I went to talk to them. I’d considered for a moment going to Rosita, who I knew for a fact...
2022-06-19 04:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostMy plan to talk to Orville about Evan and Dixon, since he was harassing Rosita on their behalf, didn’t end up working out as planned.
My next shift was the night shift and Orville called me...
2022-06-16 00:14:32 +0000 UTC View Post