A Shattered Lens – Layton Green

That or Nate himself would make an appearance, even if suspended, lurking around the edges. The next few days, he hoped, would yield some answers. Maybe Brett would talk, maybe Lisa Waverly would tell him why David had been at her house, maybe Nate Wilkinson would drift within the detective’s orbit. As he turned the light off, he felt relieved beyond measure that suspicion had shifted away from Claire. No one wanted a mother to be guilty of murdering her son, especially a mother he knew personally.

Yet his last conscious thought left him with a feeling of unease: If Claire was guilty, then she was doing a very good job, from trying to seduce him in such an unassuming manner to her quiet displays of guilt to producing one of Brett’s receipts from the night of David’s disappearance, at deflecting suspicion. The visit from the police reinforced the decision Blue had made to leave Creekville. Things were too hot around the trailer park.

Cobra was closing in, old Billy Flynn was about to make good on his promise, and the law was snooping around. And what about the comment that blond detective with the shoulders like grapefruits had made, asking about her Chinatown shirt? Did he know something about the camera? At this point, she no longer cared about the answers to the mounting questions. She just needed to get the hell out of Dodge, as her daddy used to say. For a moment, just a moment, she considered turning herself in, either to the gang or the police.

The gang idea she discarded as the height of stupidity. Going to the police wasn’t much better. They wouldn’t protect her, and if Los Viburos ever figured out she had narced, she was deader than Myspace. What if the murderer was never caught, she wondered? What if the gang never stopped believing she was a witness ? She didn’t have an answer. For now, she had to run. She started to hide her camera but realized there was no safe place to put it. Once she disappeared, her mom would turn her room upside down, and there was no basement or attic to stash it in.

Praise for Written in Blood “5/5 . . . This smart mystery by Layton Green [is] a real page turner.” —San Francisco Book Review “[A] fascinating new protagonist who’s both tough and sensitive.” —Kirkus Reviews “A satisfying page-turner for readers who appreciate literary references and existential questions with their corpses.” —Publishers Weekly “Dostoevsky and Poe would be proud.”

—Knoxville News Sentinel “Written in Blood provides the delights of a whodunit, esoteric clues that refer cleverly to classic literary works, and, at the same time, offers the gritty sense of place and the kind of psychologically complex characters ordinarily associated with noir. These elements combine to make a smart page-turner as dark and deep as the Carolina woods.”

—Gordon McAlpine, author of Hammett Unwritten and the Edgar- nominated Woman with a Blue Pencil “Written in Blood combines bookishness and murder in brain-teasing ways,doubling the pleasure of a more conventional procedural. Fast paced and braided with twists, it’s terrific entertainment.” —Andrew Pyper, author of The Only Child and The Demonologist “[W]ritten with profound elegance and clever misdirection that brings the book to a surprising climax.”

—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine “Written in Blood is a relentlessly paced mystery that’s part old-school whodunit, part modern police procedural and part psychological thriller, with a knockout ending that the reader will never guess… and never forget.Highly recommended!” —The Internet Review of Books “[A]ny fans of the dark crime genre will be sure to enjoy this. I’m definitely going to look out for Layton Green’s books in the future.” —The Eccentric Trilogy 1kitap1.com/en A SHATTERED LENS A DETECTIVE PREACH EVERSON NOVEL LAYTON GREEN 1kitap1.com/en Published 2019 by Seventh Street Books® A Shattered Lens.

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Characters, organizations, products, locales, and events portrayed in this novel either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any similarities to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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