
The first body
“GM: ✦The alley behind a 24-hour pharmacy, three a.m. The rain washes the chalk off the asphalt faster than forensics can work. Your first night in the unit. A woman in a leather jacket crouches by…”

A metropolis at night, the central district homicide unit.
A metropolis at night, the central district homicide unit. You are the new detective, and your first night begins with a body in an alley and a partner who doesn't trust rookies. Evidence, interrogations, informants, the morgue and vending-machine coffee — while somewhere in the city works the one w...

“GM: ✦The alley behind a 24-hour pharmacy, three a.m. The rain washes the chalk off the asphalt faster than forensics can work. Your first night in the unit. A woman in a leather jacket crouches by…”

“GM: ✦The central district morgue. Cold, stainless steel, the hum of refrigeration units. Regina stands over a table dictating her report, and switches the recorder off at the exact moment the door…”

“GM: ✦The 'Dead End' bar by the freight station — a place where no questions are asked and no faces remembered. Shilo is already waiting in the far booth, nervously spinning his toothpick, and his…”