JOHN MACKIE
Novels of real life and real death by a real cop from the big city

In a Manhattan bar, two strangers pick up a young man--a soon-to-be-dead look-alike for one of them. Later, when a patient dies in the office of a West Side physician, the NYPD demands an autopsy. But the death is ruled a simple heart attack. The body and any potential evidence are cremated, the insurance company pays a million and a half to the beneficiary--and a perfect fraud is complete. But now the partners in crime are thinking that one perfect scam deserves another. All they need is their next victim....

When Detective Sergeant Thorn Savage and his Manhattan South Homicide squad are assigned to the stalled case, their investigation takes them into the city's seamy underbelly, where dangerous fun--and the answers to an ingenious murder case--await those who know where to find them....