Made A Killing: Alex Warren Murder Mysteries, Book 1
By Zach Abrams
Alex Warren’s day had taken a distinct turn for the worse following a reasonably ordinary morning. He was not a happy man.
The sickening sight of the corpse lay in front of him. It was a mess of blood and guts. A bright red pool surrounded the wound, which was edged by ravaged flesh and dotted with black congealing clots. The horrified, wide-eyed stare of the victim exacerbated the profound horror of the scene. Overwhelmed by the smell of blood, Warren felt nauseous, imagining he could taste metal in his mouth, and with great reluctance, he took another look at the body before exhaling loudly. Even when he looked away, everything seemed bathed in a red haze. He was confused. There could be no doubt about how Stevenson was killed, and Warren had strong suspicions about the murderer’s motives. He wasn’t surprised that someone murdered him but, instead, that it hadn’t happened sooner. What perplexed Warren most was thinking about all the possible candidates for the crime.
The typically towering, muscular frame of DCI Alex Warren was weary, and his shoulders drooped. His black hair seemed lank, and the clean-shaven skin of his normally tight, angular face sagged. Instead of his usually healthy colouring, his skin came closer to matching the white protective one-piece coverall he was wearing. He usually carried his age well, and most people, on first impressions, imagined he was in his early thirties, but today, he looked all of his forty-one years. Only his bright green eyes showed their usual sharpness. He was unhappy to be the poor sod assigned as a senior investigating officer on this case and given the task of finding Stevenson’s murderer. It was unusual for him not to be keen to solve a crime. His fundamental problem was that he was happy to see Scott Stevenson dead. He couldn’t consider the person who terminated his life to be a criminal, a hero more like. Yet he was given the task of finding the murderer so that justice could be served. What kind of justice was this?
Alex Warren was all too familiar with Scott Stevenson. He’d investigated countless complaints of how he’d robbed and cheated people and, in particular, claims that he’d targeted the elderly, conning them out of their life savings, their valuables, or the inheritances they’d planned for their offspring. At least three of the poor buggers who Warren was aware of had taken seriously ill and died as a direct consequence of the anguish Stevenson had caused.
Genre: Mystery/Detective
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Zach Abrams
Biography.
With a successful career in business and finance, Zach Abrams has only recently started writing fiction. His first novel, Ring Fenced, was published in November 2011. It’s a different crime story following one man’s obsession with power and control.
This novel was followed by collaborating with Elly Grant to produce ‘Twists and Turns’, a short storybook. Zach’s second novel ‘Made a Killing’ started his Alex Warren murder mystery series. This fast-moving, gripping crime novel is set in Glasgow’s harsh, crime-ridden streets—the second of the series. ‘A Measure of Trouble’ is set in a whisky distillery and the third, ‘Written to Death’ deals with a mysterious death during a writers’ group meeting. .
Zach’s thriller, ‘Source: A Fast-Paced Financial Crime Thriller,’ has three investigative journalists researching corruption and sabotage in the banking sector while trying to cope with their fraught personal lives. Like his central character in ‘Ring Fenced’ (Benjamin Short), Zach Abrams completed his education in Scotland and pursued a career in business and finance. He is married with two children. He plays no instruments but has an eclectic taste in music, although not as obsessive as Benjamin. Unlike Benjamin, he does not maintain mistresses, write pornography and (sadly) he does not have ownership of such a company. He is not a sociopath (at least by his reckoning), and all versions of his life are aware of and freely communicate with each other.
Zach is also writing a series of business guidebooks – the Mind Your Business series. The first ‘So, You Think You Want to be a Landlord’ was published in December 2017.
Zach Abrams
