As Hollow
Point: A Short Story begins it is 1984 in New Orleans and Casey Aloysius
is once again the target of a manhunt by the New Orleans Police Department. Six
years ago he went to prison in Angola for a raping a ten year old girl. The
parole board granted his release so he got free three days ago. He came
back to New Orleans and tracked down the now 16-year-old girl. Once he found
her he kidnapped her and raped her repeatedly making sure to do everything he
had done before all over again. He left her barely alive, savagely beaten and
abused, and chained wall of a garage after telling her repeatedly he was
punishing her for reporting him before. If it had not been for two neighborhood
boys who thought they heard a puppy whimpering and came looking she might have
died there.
This is an all hands
on deck situation as the police of the City of New Orleans look for Casey
Aloysius. That means even the homicide unit is working the case. After briefing
the officers under his command, Lieutenant Mason sends LaStanza and his
partner, Jodie Kintyre, over to Mercy Hospital to get a statement from
the victim. As it happens, Jodie’s mom and the mother of the victim were
friends so the victim, June Holmes, remembers Jodie from the old neighborhood.
Her need for vengeance is not a solitary need as soon of the New Orleans’s finest
is gunned down.
What follows is a hard-edged
police procedural type short story that has occasional flashes of cynical
humor. LaStanza has seen a lot in his years on the force and his internal
monologue and cutting comments say as much about him as they do others. An
enjoyable short story, the chase is on in Hollow Point: A Short Story by O’Neil
De Noux.
Hollow Point: A Short Story
O’Neil De Noux
Big Kiss Productions
November 2016
ASIN: B01MTIZSO2
eBook
41 Pages
$2.99
Material was picked up using funds in my Amazon Associate
account when the author publicized the release last month.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2016
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