Cold Slice

Description for COLD SLICE by L T Fawkes:

I want to tell you a story. It's about friends, hard work, good love, bad love, and murder. My name's Terry Saltz.

Here's me: Six-five. Twenty-six. Smart-ass. Long black hair tied back with a leather shoelace. Plaid flannel shirt with the elbows blown out. I'm a carpenter. I like to build things. I don't claim to be a writer. But I'm thinking, how hard can it be?

It started like this. I got wasted in a bar one night, trashed the place, and went to jail. As a result I lost my job, my wife, my truck, and my mobile home. Losing that truck was the part that hurt the most.

When I got out, I figured I had to start again at the beginning. I walked into Carlo's Pizza and got hired as a night delivery driver. Not only was I relieved to be back on someone's payroll, but I was making new friends and having more fun than I expected...until one of the other drivers turned up dead. The cops got nowhere fast, so me and my new buddies decided it was time to go looking for the murderer.

This is #1 in A Working Man's Mystery.