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A jewel heist. A murdered actress. A killer case for NYPD Red. In a city where crime never sleeps, NYPD Red is the elite task force called in when a case involves the rich, famous and connected. Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald are the best of the best — brilliant and tireless investigators who will stop at nothing to catch a criminal, even if it means antagonising the same powerful people they’re supposed to be helping. When a glitzy movie premiere is the scene of a shocking murder and high-stakes robbery, NYPD Red gets the call. In a hunt that takes Zach and Kylie from celebrity penthouses to the depths of Manhattan’s criminal underworld, they have to find the cold-blooded killer — before he strikes again.

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“Oh, for crying out loud, Gerri,” I said as soon as I realized I was being snookered.

Gerri Gomperts is a take-no-prisoners, abide-no-fools Jewish grandmother who serves up home cooking along with a side order of her sage but snarky wisdom on what makes relationships work.

“Do I look like I need therapy?” I asked.

“Who said anything about therapy?” she asked, all wide-eyed and innocent. “All I know is that Cheryl moved in with you three weeks ago, last night you didn’t get home till God knows when, and then you showed up this morning looking more stressed out than a virgin at a lumberjacks’ convention. So I’m going to go out on a limb and say that your troubled mind is more troubled than usual. If therapy would help, then you’ve come to the right diner.”

“You couldn’t be more wrong,” I said.

“Sounds like I struck a nerve. I’ll be right back.”

She returned with my breakfast, topped off my coffee, and sat down. “You do this all the time,” she said. “You show up with that needy-guy look on your face, I offer to help, and you play hard to get. Either tell me what’s going on, or I’ll find someone else who appreciates what a woman with my life experience brings to the table.”

I told her.

She shrugged. “So you’re busy. It goes with the territory. Cheryl’s not going to move out because you’re on a high-profile case and have to work late.”

“Don’t be so sure,” I said. “I know too many cops whose relationships imploded because they put the job first.”

“Your job isn’t the problem, Zach.”

“Then what is?”

She picked up the sugar packet dispenser and dumped it on the table.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“It’s the diner version of a PowerPoint presentation.”

She picked up a pink packet of Sweet’N Low and a blue packet of Equal. “The blue is you, and the pink is Cheryl,” she said. “And here you are, together at home.” She put both packets back into the empty dispenser.

“Over here is work,” she said, picking up a saltshaker and putting it on the other side of the table.

“Now, every day, you go to the salt mines,” she said, moving the Zach packet from home to work, “where you are joined by a lot of your fellow men in blue.” She surrounded the saltshaker with Equal packets.

“And your ex-girlfriend Kylie.” She added a single pink packet to the blue pile. “Then you and Kylie go off and spend the next ten to fourteen hours together.” She moved the Sweet’N Low and an Equal to a vacant spot on the table.

“So,” she said, “do you still think it’s about working overtime, or are you apologizing to Cheryl for spending those late nights with Kylie?”

“I hope you’re not charging me for this,” I said, “because your entire analysis is based on old news. I’ve moved on. Kylie is the past. Cheryl is the future. The Zach Jordan soap opera is over.”

“I’m sure you believe that, but you forgot one thing. When you moved in, you and Cheryl went from dating to cohabitating. You’re living with her now, and I’ll bet that every night you’re out late playing cops and robbers with your past, you’re haunted by the fact that your future is all alone in the love nest waiting for you to come home.”

She handed me the dispenser with the solo pink Sweet’N Low packet in it. “Mull it over,” she said.

Before I could respond, my phone vibrated and a text popped up. It was from Captain Cates.

Gracie Mansion. Now.

“Gerri, I’ve got to go,” I said, standing up.

“Wait a minute,” she said, pointing at the packets of artificial sweetener scattered all over the table. “Are you going to just leave this mess here?”

“Since when is that my job?” I said.

A victory smile spread across her face. “It’s all part of the therapy, Zach. It’s your life. You clean it up.”

Chapter 6

Muriel Sykes had been mayor of New York for only three months, but Kylie and I were already on her speed dial. We had done her a real solid when she was a candidate, and as good fortune would have it, the new mayor believed in reciprocity.

The brass at Red, who knew the benefits of being in bed with the politicians in power, loved the fact that one of their teams had become the mayor’s go-to cops. So when Cates’s text came telling us to go to Gracie Mansion, we didn’t waste time prioritizing. Mayor Sykes was our priority.

Kylie was waiting for me outside the One Nine.

“Do you know what the mayor wants?” I asked as soon as I got in the car.

“No,” Kylie said. “I was in the office when Cates got the call. There were no specifics. She just told me to roll.”

“Did you fill Cates in on where we are on the Elena Travers case?”

“It’s more like I filled her in on where we aren’t. We got nothing. All I could tell Cates is that these guys weren’t high-end jewel thieves. They’re a couple of mooks who are in over their heads and will try to unload the necklace fast. I told her we put the word out on the street, and we’re hoping to get a hit from our extensive CI network.”

“Extensive? We’ve got a call in to three CIs. She didn’t buy that bullshit, did she?”

“Of course not. But it did get a laugh.”

Two minutes later, we arrived at Gracie and let the guard at the gate know we were there to see Mayor Sykes.

“You better hurry,” he said. “She’s going to be wheels up in less than a minute.”

The mayor’s black SUV was parked in front of the mansion. I recognized her driver.

“Charlie, what’s going on? We just got a call that the mayor wanted to see us.”

“And she just got a call that the governor wanted to see her. We all have to dance for someone, Zach.”

Kylie and I walked up the porch steps just as the front door flew open, and Muriel Sykes stormed out. She was wearing a warm purple coat and a cold, hard scowl.

“Good morning, Madam Mayor,” I said.

“America’s sweetheart was murdered in my city on my watch. What the hell is good about it?” she said. “Where are you on the case?”

“We’ve got nothing of substance to report yet,” I said.

Nothing of substance seems to be the theme of my day,” she said. “I’m on my way to Albany to be lied to.”

She walked down the porch steps and headed for the SUV. Charlie opened the rear door as she approached.

Kylie and I followed. “Mayor Sykes,” I said, “you sent for us. Was it just to get an update on the Travers case?”

“Hell, no. I knew you had nothing because nobody from Red called to say you had something.”

She climbed into the backseat of the car, and Charlie closed the door. Sykes rolled down the rear window. “I called for something else. It’s a nasty can of worms, and I can’t trust anyone to deal with it but you.”

“Thank you,” I said. “Do you have time to give us the details?”

“Detective, I don’t have time to wind my watch. Howard can give you the details. He’s waiting for you inside.”

She rolled up the window, and the SUV took off for the 145-mile trip to the state capital.

“I’ve never seen her in such a foul mood,” I said. “I wouldn’t want to be Charlie.”

“Hell,” Kylie said, “if this is the real Muriel Sykes, then I wouldn’t want to be Howard.”

That got a laugh out of me. Howard Sykes was the mayor’s husband. We went back up the porch steps to find out what nasty can of worms he was about to entrust us with.

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