Taking Care Of Business

by DL Ashmore

Genres: Crime & Mystery

Synopsis

Tampa homicide detective Mike Ash faces two of his most baffling cases yet! First, someone is trying to rid Tampa of drugs and criminals, but who? Territorial rivals? If so, why leave the drugs and weapons for the police to find? Yet where has all the money gone? Second, why is a national children’s charity suddenly underfunded and closing its operations across the country? More importantly, why are some of the top executives found murdered?

     While Mike tries to sort out the means, motives, and opportunities for multiple murders, his girlfriend, Terri, confronts her past traumas and current fears with the help of a caring psychologist. Is she safe from the man who kidnapped her, then disappeared after her rescue? Can she trust Mike to keep her informed and safe from the kidnapper?

Release date: April 27, 2021

Publisher: David Ashmore

Print pages: 187

Content advisory: Adult themes and situations

Sample

     The desperate situation in which the undercover narc found himself was becoming clearer and more terrifying with every passing second. Harold Kuznik silently cursed himself as he sat naked, tied to a chair in a back room at Tropical Garden of Tampa Gentlemen’s Club, if that’s where he was. He had come into the club to make some small-time drug sales, then return later with a warrant to bust not only the buyers but the whole club as well. Maybe even bring a RICO charge against the club and its owner if he got lucky. He’d be a hero, for sure, then.

He came in the club without a wire or surveillance of any kind. No technicians listening and recording everything in the club, ready to launch the SWAT team with a single word. The only thing he did was pay his cover charge with an invisibly marked fifty-dollar bill. That was the only proof that he was here. Or had ever been here. No one knew where he was.