Showing Echoes of the Engine by P.D. Workman

Detective Margie “Parks Pat” Patenaude did not expect to be the first one on the scene at a gruesome accidental death when a walk with Stella took a sudden turn for the worse. The below-grade pedestrian crossing was supposed to prevent such things, but the homeless man encamped up the slope apparently had his own ideas.

But what she had expected to write up as a tragic accidental death takes a sudden, unexpected turn. To begin with, the victim is not what he appeared to be. But that’s just the beginning