Robert Ellis: CITY OF FIRE, Chapter 13

LAPD Headquarters, Interrogation Rm 3, Late Night ...

“Brant’s weary eyes rose from his empty Styrofoam cup, bounced off Lena and slid over to Novak closing the door. It was 2:00 AM. He was slumped over the wooden table holding his head. He had missed a night’s sleep, was about to miss another, and was showing it.”

As Lena and Novak question Brant, Lena catches him in a lie. Brant admits that he hit his wife, and he hit her hard. Brant refuses to take a polygraph. When it heats up and even Brant knows he looks like the killer, he calls his famous criminal attorney, Buddy Paladino …

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Robert Ellis: CITY OF FIRE, Chapter 12

Robbery-Homicide Division, LAPD Headquarters, Downtown Los Angeles ...

While Sanchez and Rhodes take the first round interviewing Brant for the brutal stabbing of his wife, Lena and Novak, push more evidence through the lab’s red tape. Novak’s daughter, Kristin, is here, bringing Lena a takeout dinner. They talk about Lena’s dead brother, David, gunned down in his car in Hollywood, his murder still unsolved. Kristin was a fan of his music. She wonders how a rock musician and a cop like Lena, two people with different lifestyles, could have lived together and been so close. Lena says it was easy …

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Robert Ellis: CITY OF FIRE, Chapter 11

Robbery Homicide Division, Police Headquarters, Downtown Los Angeles ...

Lena’s thinking about the semen she found on the carpet by Brant’s desk in the study. She checks out their phone records, learning that the computer was used to surf the Internet for two hours after the murder. The killer has to be Brant. Then Detectives Sanchez & Rhodes bring Brant in for questioning. Brant's staring at Lena and has that zombie look – his eyes lost and hollow and ice-cold. His mouth is clamped shut, producing a faint sneer...

 

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