Bloodlust

Bloodlust

Author: Sandra Brown Listening Length: 12h 29m
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Two years ago, Detective Mitch Haskell lost his wife to a vicious act of retribution, and has since attributed her murder to two men: Roland Malone and the unidentified mastermind of the crime known only as Oz. Malone, a ruthless executioner and drug dealer who fronts as a restaurant owner, neutralizes so cleanly that ...

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It turned ugly there at the end,” Roland Malone said into his phone. He’d been relating to the man on the other end of the call what he’d been told by his plant in the Auclair police department about the drama that had played out there that morning.

While giving the account, Roland turned the signet ring on his right pinkie ’round and ’round his finger, as was his habit. Since he was never without the heavy gold ring with the ruby stone, one would assume it was a family heirloom with sentimental significance. In a way, it was.

Roland had taken it as a trophy off the first man he had killed: his father. He’d been fifteen. He’d fled the Bronx that day, wound up in New Orleans, and had never looked back. He considered the ring his good luck charm.

He continued his account of the standoff between John Bowie and Mitch Haskell.