Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: What Are You?

Chapter 2: The Turd in the Punch Bowl

Chapter 3: Psychic Payne

Chapter 4: The Christmas Gift

Chapter 5: Cops ’n’ Corpses

Chapter 6: Baby-Mamas and Bastards

Chapter 7: My Parents Never Did That!

Chapter 8: Runnin’ Code

Chapter 9: A Pot to Piss In

Chapter 10: Love and Anger Management

Chapter 11: Mudbug

Chapter 12: Stranger in a Strange Land

Chapter 13: Plainclothes and Provenance

Chapter 14: Missing Persons

Chapter 15: Deception for Detection

Chapter 16: The New Squad

Chapter 17: Oedipus Wrecks

Chapter 18: The Chicken Comes Home to Pensacola

Chapter 19: Thievin’ Hoes, Prehensile Toes

Chapter 20: Bad Bluffs, Slipped Cuffs

Chapter 21: Solo Stakeout

Chapter 22: Slocumb’s Theorem

Chapter 23: Fool Me Once

Chapter 24: Bad Day on the Bayou

Chapter 25: Colt’s Capture and the Metro Amends

Chapter 26: Folly Chases Death (around the Broken Pillar of Life)

Chapter 27: Shit Gets Real

Chapter 28: Face of Fury, Search for Sense

Chapter 29: (Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Epilogue

Additional Reading

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index