A free Victor Manole story
The Man Who
Kept the Heat On
A complete case · the night Manole got a partner
The story
October 2023. The first cold snap of the season, a dead boiler in a Havenrock housing project, and an old man nobody reported missing. The file says the cold took him.
Detective Victor Manole looks at the scene and sees a coat folded under the dead man's head. The cold doesn't fold coats. And the new transfer from Washington Heights, assigned to him against his will, turns out to be the last thing the precinct expected: someone he can work with.
A complete case — and the story of how the loner of the 38th Precinct got a partner. Read it before The Fourth Day, or after. It spoils nothing.
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The Fourth Day · October 2026
A man pulled from the river at first light on a Sunday. An election three weeks away. A city that covers anything in three days.
The first Victor Manole novel. The mailing list reads it first: get the novella below and you're on it.
Proof of Life · Spring 2027
December. A man on the city payroll is dead, and a missing woman is still alive on paper, and only on paper.
The second Victor Manole novel.
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