I would spend an inordinate amount of time ogling that paint job as well.

Didn’t know him personally. Just part of my job — financial crime analysis. Except this wasn’t financial crime. More like crime with a possible financial element.

Life without parole — mandatory sentence for a capital felony conviction in Texas. Well, that or execution.

Pretty sure we’ve seen this before.

Just a small part to give the jury a glimpse of the financial situation of the defendant, which was a possible motive. The case really came down to the physical evidence and the crime scene reconstruction experts.

While waiting to testify in a capital murder trial in a small town in Texas, I decided to kill some time by driving to the scene of the murder just down the road from the courthouse. The house was set off the road about 100 yards and had been sitting abandoned since the time of the double murder. Surrounded by the…

A new twist a on the autoerotic fatality. Bravo, sir.

Adler-Olsen’s Dept. Q is definitely another series that deserves mention when recommending titles in this genre. They’re solid mysteries, with great characters and enough humor in them to keep you from giving up on humanity after reading Arnuldur Indridason (who also gets my endorsement.)