A Hateful Chill
By David Mitchell
Murder, deception, payback! A Hateful Chill lingers over a cold body discovered in a morning mist. Forty-eight hours after the homeless victim is found by the dumpster driver in the east-end alley, the Appellate Court parking garage awakens to a double homicide. This fast paced novella stymies the detective on the case, who finds himself caught up in the drug infested world of Vancouver street life.....Gruesome deaths and painful truths are comforted by a long-awaited reunion in the end.
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A Hateful Chill brings together two men who share disturbing memories from painful pasts. Tim McConnell, once a family man with three children, is devastated after he arrives home from a midnight shift at the mine and finds his wife raped and murdered. And twenty-one years later, Vancouver Detective, Chad Jackson discovers Tim may be the street vagrant responsible for an alley murder and two Appellate Court parkcade killings. Learning of the vagrant’s past, which includes Tim’s imprisonment for an attack on his wife’s killer, Jackson uncovers a series of courtroom deceptions that helped lengthen Tim’s sentence and keep him incarcerated. Loosely linked to the courtroom deceptions that occured in the author’s life story as described in his book, Poor Man’s Justice, first published in 2004 and now available on Amazon. The gripping sense of reality in ‘A Hateful Chill, never strays far from the judical deceptions that are highlighted on the author’s blog in an article, titled, “A Matter of Intergrity.