Table of Contents
Prologue ix
Part I Memories Past
Chapter 1 Murder at Fran's Market 3
Chapter 2 "We have a triple..." 19
Chapter 3 A Cop's Worst Nightmare 39
Part II A Mother's Vengeance
Chapter 4 A Gun Definitely Gets Your Attention 47
Chapter 5 Never Piss Off a Mother 49
Chapter 6 Even Criminals Have Standards 63
Chapter 7 You Don't Break a Horse in One Ride 75
Chapter 8 Follow the Money 79
Chapter 9 "The toughest part of a cop's job..." 83
Chapter 10 What Happened to Mary Sue? 90
Chapter 11 A Robbery at Kmart 98
Chapter 12 Kmart Robbery Aftermath 104
Chapter 13 Fear Has Its Own Smell 112
Chapter 14 Like the Scales of a Snake 130
Chapter 15 The Weakest Link 134
Chapter 16 "We rob and steal and those who squeal..." 139
Chapter 17 "If I was guaranteed protection..." 145
Chapter 18 "He is capable of anything" 152
Chapter 19 A Gravestone for Mary Sue 164
Chapter 20 A Lethal Vote 167
Chapter 21 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words 179
Chapter 22 "Ready for the People" 185
Chapter 23 "We the jury..." 207
Part III A Whispering Voice
Chapter 24 "A gnawing coldness..." 215
Chapter 25 "Body otherwise unremarkable..." 219
Chapter 26 "The second son..." 224
Chapter 27 Murder Doesn't Always Make Sense 227
Chapter 28 No Promises 232
Chapter 29 Puppet Master 238
Chapter 30 We Had to Get the Shooter 254
Chapter 31 The Folsom Connection 258
Chapter 32 Blood Turns to Ice 264
Chapter 33 "One of my dogs will do it..." 272
Chapter 34 The End of the Slow Dance 297
Part IV Retribution
Chapter 35 The Tentacles of the Past 306
Chapter 36 The Time of Retribution 313
Epilogue 336
Principal Characters 341
Timeline 343
Index 345
