He locked the house and got in behind the wheel.
‘Autumn in the piney woods?’ he asked, starting the engine.
She smiled a smile that was going to brighten the darkest of any north wood’s night.
‘Instinctual,’ she said.
Jack Fredrickson
Jack Fredrickson's first Dek Elstrom mystery, A Safe Place for Dying, was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. His short fiction has appeared in the acclaimed Chicago Blues and in Michael Connelly's Burden of the Badge anthologies. He lives with his wife, Susan, west of Chicago, where he is crafting the next Dek Elstrom novel.
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