Old School Ties

Tyler Brykman Returns Home Form A Business Trip To Find The Mutilated Bodies Of His Wife And Two Children. Morgan Strongbow And Sara Rydell Are Assigned To The Case Even Though Sara May Not Be Fully Recovered From The Life-Threatening Wound She Received Solving Their Previous Case. Brykman Immediately Becomes Their Primary Suspect Until He Tells Them He Was In Europe. As Soon As Strongbow And Sara Corroborate Brykman'S Alibi, They Turn Their Attention To His Partner, A Manipulative Bully Named Ronald Mazarovic. When Mazarovic'S Wife And Children Meet The Same Fate As Tyler Brykman'S, The Police Are Certain They Have Their Man. The Problem Is, Mazarovic Also Has An Alibi For The Times When Both Homicides Took Place. Could The Two Attorneys Have Plotted The Murders Together And Acted As Each Other'S Alibis? Or Might Someone Be Trying To Take Revenge On Brykman And Mazarovic For An Series Of Events That Took Place Decades Earlier When The Two Were In Grammar School. Betrayal. Bullies. Manipulation. Rape. Revenge. Old School Ties Has All Of The Mind Bending Plot Twists That Readers Of Veiled Threats, The First Installment Of Lloyd Frankland'S Chicagoland Detective Series, Have Come To Expect.