Handcuffed and sitting in a red velvet chair, the suspect is bleeding from his mouth and nose, the top buttons of his white ruffled dress shirt are ripped with threads dangling, his bow tie hangs loosely around his thick neck like ratty socks.
Detective Sergeant Hope Mirabella paused her interrogation to give the suspect a chance to breathe. She looked again at the Tosca poster on the wall. The huge, vintage opera poster pictured a woman in a white dress holding a crucifix, standing over a dead man against a blood-red background. It was the focal point of the small banquet room in the back of the Italian restaurant. She normally wouldn’t have paid attention to it, however it is too similar to the crime scene she is investigating. The poster had something unusual about it, the shadows wer
