Mahu Vice by Neil Plakcy

Author:Neil Plakcy [Plakcy, Neil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Gay, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, General Fiction
ISBN: 9781608203789
Google: PMJLygAACAAJ
Amazon: 1608203786
Publisher: MLR Press
Published: 2011-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

WHERE ALL ROADS LEAD

“You recognize this guy?” Ray asked.

I nodded. “He was a hustler. I heard him called Lucas. He’s the one who gave my name to Vice.”

“Anything in the folder?”

I looked. Steve Hart hadn’t found much. He didn’t have an ID on the victim—but then he hadn’t had the inside information I had. And I could empathize with him; I had two dead Chinese girls on my sheet who didn’t have names, either.

The autopsy results showed that Lucas had died from a single bullet to the head, in the same way that Norma Ching and the two Chinese girls had been killed. Tox screens revealed that he was an ice user, high at the time of death. He had also tested positive for syphilis.

“Shit,” I said. That was all I needed. I remembered that Lucas had used a condom that night, but he’d also tongue-fucked me and jerked me off. Had he had syphilis then? I’d had enough experience with STDs thanks to Mike and the gonorrhea he had passed me. I didn’t need syphilis on top of it.

“What’s the matter?” Ray asked.

I didn’t want to tell him. But I’d already lied too much, to myself, my family, and friends. “This is not a story I want to tell in the middle of the station,” I said. “Come on, let’s take a ride.”

Ray shrugged and said, “Sure.” We didn’t talk much as I drove us up toward Black Point. We rolled up all the flaps to enjoying the fresh air from some trade winds blowing in off the ocean with the promise of a bright, sunny winter.

“Fancy neighborhood,” Ray said, as we started up the street where Mr. Hu’s mansion was located.

“All lava underneath here,” I said. “Hence the name. They say when King Kamehameha arrived from the big island, his war canoes stretched all the way from here to Hawai’i Kai.”

“The homicide department doesn’t work out for you, you could always get a gig as a tour guide.”

“You like this neighborhood? ’Cause I’m happy to let you out.”

“No, no, continue the tour,” he said, holding up his hand.

Whenever my personal life spilled over into my job, I got irritable. I’d been cautioned by Lieutenant Sampson about finding the appropriate balance between my work and my sex life, and I could see another warning on the horizon.

“Neighborhood first developed in the 1930s,” I said, trying for a lighter tone. “Some of the most expensive houses on the island. We’re talking ten to fifteen million bucks.”

I pulled up in front of Mr. Hu’s house and shut the Jeep off. The wrought-iron gates were closed and the place looked deserted, but the grass grows so fast in the islands that it could have just been a couple of weeks since the lawn service had been by.

“This is where you came to meet Mr. Hu?” Ray asked.

“I want to say, I appreciate how cool you are,” I said, looking not at Ray but out the window. “Most guys, they’d freak out at some of the stuff I’ve told you.

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