From the Macavity Award-winning, multi-award nominated author of the noir romp Go Down Hard, "Dead End" is a dark suspense story about an LAPD detective whose life, marriage and career fell apart when he inadvertently tainted evidence, leading to a not-guilty verdict for a celebrity plastic surgeon who clearly committed a vicious torture-murder. Â Four years after the trial, our hero, Johno Beltran, has been reduced to living in his car and working as a valet parking attendant.Â
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Our story opens when the psychopath who got away with murder pulls his $100,000 BMW into the lot where Johno works.
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6,000 words.
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Johno's story continues in the novella Psycho Logic.