The Schoolboy Murders
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Winters still wanted to search
the apartment for possible evidence in case his alibi didn’t hold up. There was the carpet and the fact Jamish had AIDS fit the crime. “I don’t know if you’re
going to be arrested or not. When we’ve
completed our talk, I’ll call my Captain and ask him. Now, I have to advise you of your rights and
ask for permission to search your apartment.”
Peter Jamish
didn’t respond. He sat in deep thought
for a couple of minutes while Winters and Sands waited for some kind of
response. He finally said, “I won’t sign
anything and I won’t let you search my apartment just on general
principles. I guess you’ll just have to
haul me in. I’d like to go to the
bathroom before we leave.”
He had them in a bind. Winters didn’t want to make an arrest until
the alibi was checked out. He decided to
let him use the bathroom while he decided the next step. “Okay, use the
bathroom, but we have to search it first.
Bill, will you take care of that?”
Sands stood up and walked into
the bathroom. He returned after about
three minutes and said, “It looks clean.”
Winters told Jamish,
“Okay, go in but leave the door open.”
Peter stood up and walked past
Sands who was still standing outside the bathroom door. Sands intended to observe him while he was in
there. Before Sands could get his foot
in the doorway, Jamish slammed it and locked it. About fifteen seconds later, while Sands was
trying to force the door open, a shot rang out.
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About the Book
Detective Captain Sam Garrison
and his investigative crew race against the clock to solve the multiple murders
of school boys in his jurisdiction. Sickened when he discovered that the fist
victim was a teenage boy he had been mentoring, Sam was impelled to find the perp and prevent any more horrible deaths for innocent
young teens in his city.
The stress of the loss of his
young friend is hard on Sam. The Mayor with an axe to grind and a female
officer with an attitude combine to give Sam more grief than he needs.
When a second boy is murdered in
the adjacent city, Detective Garrison coordinates the investigation efforts
with Captain George Burke of St Paul. In the ensuing investigation of possible
sex offenders both Burke and Garrison are wounded as are the perps. Who lives? Who dies?
About the Author
Richard Salverda
became a police officer at age twenty one and served for thirty seven years.
Starting as the most junior officer and working his way through the ranks to
Detective \Lieutenant Investigative unit, he saw just about every police
interaction. Domestic abuse, runaways, traffic accidents that looked like war
zones, rapes, armed robberies(one that cost a
partner), and murders. The many facets of police life and the justice system
were daily fare for him: victims, perpetrators, chases, man hunts, forensics,
police, D.A.s and courts.
Soon after his retirement, with
notebooks full of ideas, he delved into mystery writing. He provides wonderful
insights into real people serving as police officers through his fictional
characters. He depicts the strengths, foibles and humor required for working in
the trenches of modem day police work.
THE SCHOOLBOY MURDERS is his
second mystery/police adventure. Salverda's first
installment of the Sam Garrison serial MORIBUND was published in 2002
He and his wife Katherine
currently reside in Stacy, Minnesota.