The Kills
Chapter One
"Murder. You should have charged the defendant
with murder."
"He didn't kill anyone, Your Honor." Not yet.
Not that I could prove.
"Juries like murder, Ms. Cooper. You should know
that better than I do." Harlan Moffett read the
indictment a second time as court officers
herded sixty prospective jurors into the small
courtroom. "Give these amateurs a dead body, a
medical examiner who can tell them the knife
wound in the back wasn't self-inflicted, a perp
who was somewhere near the island of Manhattan
when the crime occurred, and I guarantee you a
conviction. This stuff you keep bringing me?"
Moffett underscored each of the charges with his
red fountain pen. Next to the block letters of
the defendant's name in the document's heading,
People of the State of New York Against Andrew
Tripping, he sketched t ... read full excerpt from The Kills: A Novel ebook
