[PUBLISHER'S NOTE] This is the "Adult Fiction for Teens" TEEN EDITION of Andy Straka's first book in the Shamus award-winning Frank Pavlicek Mystery Series. It includes a BONUS Falconry Primer. For the regular adult edition, see separate listing(s). [DESCRIPTION]Â
One shot.Â
One fatal error.Â
Frank Pavlicek left the NYPD under less than ideal circumstances. Now, thirteen years later, he works as a private investigator in Virginia, where he tries to live outside the shadow of his past. . . . In this first book from the Frank Pavlicek Mystery Series, the divorced Frank is hoping to rebuild a relationship with his college-bound daughter, Nicole, with whom he shares a passion for falconry. While hunting with his red-tailed hawk, Armistead, he makes a terrible discovery: a teenage boy's body concealed behind a pile of brush near a spot in the forest Frank recently visited with Nicole. It's a gruesome scene, one of the many things Frank doesn't miss about working homicide in the city. Worse, he finds Nicole's phone number in the boy's wallet and decides to pocket the evidence. Days later, Nicole is in jail. Frank's past is coming back to haunt him. And his reputation and life are on the line. . . .