Nickel City Sancturary: Gideon Rimes

By Gary Earl Ross

Sex. High-stakes corruption. Murder.

 

Meet Gideon Rimes, an Iraq-war vet and army detective turned Private Investigator. Returning a kid separated from his family at the border should have been an easy task. Too bad Gideon left his Baby Glock in his gun safe back in New York...

 

(Publisher's Note: This is a short story in the Gideon Rimes mystery series.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: SEG Publishing
• Release date: Aug 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201538422

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Nickel City Sanctuary

A Gideon Rimes Short Story

Gary Earl Ross

Contents

Nickel City Sanctuary

About the Author

Gideon Rimes Series

Copyright © Gary Earl Ross 2021

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The right of Gary Earl Ross to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted per the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1976. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real people, alive or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Cover design by Steven Novak

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Published by SEG Publishing

Nickel City Sanctuary

Soon after Phoenix Trinidad and I became lovers, Sunday became our favorite day. Unless she was due in court Monday and had found no time to prepare earlier or my current investigation demanded my presence elsewhere, we spent Saturday night through Sunday evening’s HBO line-up together. By unspoken agreement, that was our time.

Whether we were in her downtown loft or my walk-up in the Elmwood Village, we slept in, made love, and showered together before stepping outside. Sometimes—especially during our first winter—we made an elaborate breakfast and ate in our robes, chatting and scanning the Buffalo News, which lay between us on my bistro counter or her dinette table. As the weather broke and snow receded, we went out to one of the Nickel City’s numerous Sunday brunches. In late spring, wind and temperature permitting, we stopped for breakfast sandwiches and coffee at a nearby Tim Horton’s. Then