A Jeff Resnick Six Pack by L.L. Bartlett

Author:L.L. Bartlett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: halloween, murder, family drama, ghosts, paranormal, christmas, brothers, siblings, psychic, urban crime
Publisher: L.L. Bartlett

EYEWITNESS

It’s been two years since the mugging that nearly killed him, and Jeff Resnick is finally putting his life back together. But his sense of peace is shattered when the detective investigating his wife’s murder calls to update him on the cold case. Can Jeff's if his sixth sense can help him find the man who killed Shelley Resnick?

The phone rang. I’d known it was going to ring. I’d known who was calling. But that didn’t make me want to lift the receiver.

I’d received one of those calls every five or six months for the past four years. They were always the same. An apology. A promise to work harder; and reassurance that resolution would one day be at hand.

Yeah. And pigs fly.

I picked up the phone.

“Hello.”

“Mr. Resnick? It’s Detective Baldwin, NYPD.”

“Hi, detective.”

“I wanted to update you on your late wife’s case.”

My late wife. Four years before, Michelle Kathleen Malone Resnick, was shot in the back of the head, execution style, in a men’s bathroom in Grand Central Terminal after a drug deal gone wrong.

I waited for Baldwin’s usual apology.

“We’ve had a couple of leads,” he said instead.

My hand tightened around the receiver. “Oh, yeah?” I managed.

“I don’t want you to get your hopes up, but this may be what we’ve been waiting for.”

Yeah, and it might not, either. They’d had leads before that went nowhere. Leads about drug dealers who’d confessed and recanted. About DNA evidence that went nowhere. Fuzzy video that was useless for making an identification. I’d heard it all before.

“What kind of leads?” I asked anyway.

“Testimony in exchange for clemency.”

“Yeah? And how’s that going?”

“Look, I know you feel jaded by everything that’s gone on in the past, but this time it might be the real deal.”

I thought about what he said. Every lead they’d ever had had dried up. Every promising tidbit of information had turned out to be false. I was tired of it. I was tired of hearing it. I was tired of Shelley’s murder being thrown at me a couple of times a year. The longer it was from the time of her death, the more I should be settled, the less it should affect me. Instead, it was like reopening a serious wound. But maybe there was a chance I could stop it all from erupting all over again. I just had to put my name and reputation on the line to do it.

“Have you ever thought of consulting a psychic to examine the evidence you’ve collected in the case?”

Baldwin gave a laugh of derision. “Not on your life.”

“Would you be open to a psychic talking with you, touching the evidence, and giving you an assessment of what they perceive?”

“Sure, why not?” Baldwin said, his tone flippant. “You got somebody in mind?”

“Yeah. Me.”

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I didn’t want to talk about this in front of my sister-in-law, Brenda, or my girlfriend, Maggie, so I waited a couple of days until I was able to work up the courage to speak to my half-brother, Richard, about it.

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