The Remember When Murders

The Remember When Murders-Chief of Detectives Marek Novak and his best detective, Erik Johansen, grapple with a case that traces back to a long-ago betrayal and its continuing consequences. These experienced detectives are familiar with betrayal as a motive for murder because many of their investigations have involved the straightforward payback motive for some real or imagined betrayal. This case is far more complicated. Sometimes, as here, the betrayed try to move on with their lives, absorbing and searching for ways to adjust to and live with the harm they've experienced. This can be far more difficult than the immediate 'hurt me, and I'll hurt you back' response. Terrible betrayals have a way of changing victims for the rest of their lives, sometimes for the better but more often for, the worse. Sometimes, victims, remembering the original hurt and perhaps seething over it for much of a lifetime, finally decide to strike back. When they do, it's often done with a vengeance, maybe even involving homicide.



Chief of Detectives Marek Novak and his best detective, Erik Johansen, grapple with a case that traces back to a long-ago betrayal and its continuing consequences.

These experienced detectives are familiar with betrayal as a motive for murder because many of their investigations have involved the straightforward payback motive for some real or imagined betrayal.

This case is far more complicated. Sometimes, as here, the betrayed try to move on with their lives, absorbing and searching for ways to adjust to and live with the harm they've experienced. This can be far more difficult than the immediate "hurt me, and I'll hurt you back" response.