The Man in the Park - paperback

🔥Everybody lies. Everybody.🔥 I stilled myself and then drew in a deep breath before reaching into my glove box for a notepad on which I wrote notes about my time of arrival and the conditions of the area. Outside, the air was bracing, and my breath came out in a puff of frost. On my drive over, I had noticed several houses nearby had draped tarps over their flower beds to protect the plants from frost damage. As I approached the scene, Officer Marcus Washington left the crime scene’s perimeter and walked toward me with a smile on his face. I met him in the light cast by a cast-iron, faux-Victorian lamppost. “Evening, Marcus,” I said, taking out my notepad. “I heard you were the first responder. What’s going on?” He pulled his own notepad from his utility belt. “We’ve got a homicide. Victim is Joel Robinson. According to his license, he’s a thirty-nine-year-old Caucasian male from The Woodlands, Texas. His car’s in the parking lot. Darlene and I searched it already but found nothing re