Author: martinsvolgart

Some angels have brass knuckles and tattered wingsAfter a freak accident kills his wife and son, Pritchard slips into alcoholism and spends most of his time at a blue-collar bar nearby to avoid the dead and empty house.A teenage girl sometimes comes into the bar to try to get her drunkard dad to come home, but it rarely works. One day, in his intoxicated state, Pritchard accidentally trips over … Pritchard accidentally trips over her scooter, breaking it. He promises the distraught girl that he’ll pay for it, but she’s used to being lied to by drunk men. To follow…

Justice may be blind, but human moral code isn’t.A dead teenager and a new partner. Neither is something new in Homicide Detective Matt Byron’s life. But this case pokes at ghosts from the past that Matt thought he’d left behind. On top of that, his new partner brings his own demons.Guilty or innocent. Those are the shades the law allows. But all the gray zones surrounding the mystery of the … mystery of the victim’s death shake the two weathered detectives. To solve the case and find their mental peace afterward, Matt and Taylor have to take a good long look at…