The Body in the Truck

Inspired by a true incident: a supposedly empty rental truck is being readied for a customer and when the back door opens the funky smell turns out to be a body in a plastic trash bag.Detective Fred Tree Stumpf gets the murder case and begins sleuthing. Somethings going on at the U-Drive_Em; mileages are being reassigned the surveillance cameras develop glitches and employees are getting conflicting orders.Soon Detective Jerry Reddings case starts overlapping and both detectives in the mid-size Indiana city are working again with each other sorting out their respective cases and closing in on an interstate smuggling ring Salvadoran illegals Cuban green-card holders posing as Mexicans the truck rentals father-daughter ownership team and a crook named after a pasta who somehow has made a carpenter a family man rich beyond his dreams.And they close in on all the criminals as they solve all the crimes and come up with a surprise ending.If you like twists dogs teens and toddlers money cigarettes cops and crime liars and killers all in a mental maze that adults will get lost in and even middle-schoolers can read read this.