A few days later, on a weekend evening, Jack invited a few friends over for a drink, including Mr. and Mrs. Kassel, Danny Regan, and Jubal Valentine, who had come to visit for the first time and brought two dozen Guinness Stouts.

Although the penthouse's open kitchen is not suitable for some dishes that need to be stir-fried, stewing and baking is not a problem, Jack made a few local free-range chickens, a white chopped chicken, a roast chicken, and Lao Mei's favorite fries and fried chicken.

In addition, there are Texas steaks and seafood from Boston, more than 300 kilometers away, which will hold the guests up one by one, and Danny even sits on the sofa without an image and burps.

"I highly recommend that Jack attend our family's Sunday dinner every week in the future."

"Why, are you tired of Linda's craft?" Jack's little provocative behavior succeeded in causing his wife Linda to squeamish and gently hammer the guy on the shoulder a few times.

"Of course not, I'm just tired of the old man's cookie-cutter roast, and my grandfather has been trying to crack your recipe for the last time I tasted your delicious beef shoulder, and we've been poor experimenters for the past few weeks."

Danny grimaced, but his words resonated with Linda, "Our two kids did complain that if it weren't for their grandpa's video game console, it would have been a lot of effort to coax them over on Sunday." ”

"Then I'll go back and write a recipe, well, I'll pass it on through Linda." Jack winked eyes at Linda, who was the real mistress of the Reagan family today.

After cleaning up the mess, Jack made a pot of jasmine tea to help everyone eat, and talked about the case not long ago.

"In the end, Chloe convinced his father that Mr. Forde dropped the charges against Helton, and that there might be some trouble with the district attorney, but given the NYPD's mediation and what happened to his daughter, the end result may be just a sentence for some community service."

After listening to the three FBIs present talk about the kidnapping case that just ended this week, Cassel, who had also prepared a good story, exclaimed,

"It's incredible! I thought I had a good enough experience this week, but. But you, my God, why is your case so dramatic! ”

Linda wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and glared at her husband viciously, "It looks like you still have a lot of problems with your NYPD work." ”

Danny was innocent, "I'm just a little detective, and you should be telling Frank that he's the head of the NYPD." ”

Alexis, who had been silently receiving education on youth issues, asked curiously, "What happened to that villain named Hugo, did you catch him?" ”

Hannah replied with a smile, "The only guy who was killed by Jack in this operation was Hugo, the remnants of that gang are still wanted, and the Hartford Police's gang response team promised to clean them up completely, and the FBI would assist them in this work." ”

Linda and Alexis looked very satisfied, just like reading a book, and the happy ending is always the most popular.

"And thanks to Jack, otherwise this case would have been screwed up by me in the first place." Jubal was still reflecting on his own problems, probably thinking of the mistakes he made in the first communication with Helton because he was in a hurry.

"The rest of the work is all up to you, if you hadn't managed Helton and bought enough time, even if we could find Stephanie, it wouldn't have been too late."

Hannah's impression of Jubal is still good, a boss who can be on top at a critical moment is far better than those who sit in the office and can only babble.

Coupled with Dana Moge, an unusually strong leader, Jack and Hannah are quite satisfied with the current team.

Kassel then talked about his first real meeting with his muse, Detective Beckett. Belch. Cooperate to solve the case.

It's a pity that Cassel didn't really get the highest honor in the suspense world this time, because the real murderer is not some crazy fan of mental disorders.

As mentioned earlier, Beckett recognized at a crime scene as a scene from the not-so-popular Kassel film "Flowers for Your Grave".

Then it reminded her of a recent case in which the body of the deceased lay in a white pentagram outlined in salt, a scene from another of Kassel's unpopular works, "Hell Without Fire."

So Beckett takes Cassel back to the police station for questioning, and the result is the previous scene, where the beautiful detective Iceberg is half angry with a best-selling author who is out of tune.

Of course, in Cassel's mouth, it was quite an interesting conversation, because he accidentally discovered that Beckett was actually his book lover, and he was still a very senior book lover, otherwise it would be impossible to remember his unpopular works.

The day after that questioning, Kassel visited the 12th Precinct again and offered Beckett's immediate superior, Superintendent Roy Montgomery, that he would offer to assist in the investigation.

Although Beckett was extremely reluctant, he could only reluctantly accept the reality, and the two spent a whole day in hundreds of letters from readers in Kassel to find letters from suspected murderers, on which the previous two crime scenes were drawn by hand.

However, the trouble is that although fingerprints were taken from the murderer's letter, there was a queue to compare the fingerprints, and this time took a full week.

"That's why you called me earlier and asked me for Mike Taylor's contact information?" Jack thought of that inexplicable phone call Kassel had made to him the other day.

"Yes, Kate uh. Detective Becket said it was because of process issues like backlogs, so I thought of the CSI lab director I met at your house last time and he was very talkative and it only took us two hours to get it done. ”

Kassel had a triumphant expression.

"I thought you'd go straight to your big fan, Mr. Mayor." Jack gave this guy a little yin and yang.

"While his phone number is indeed on my speed dial list, can I also look for him for this kind of thing? Hmm, I remember. Cassel's words provoked a big roll of the eyes from Danny, who is also an NYPD.

"Let me guess, Kate must be very upset with your behavior."

Hannah didn't have many friends in New York before, but after meeting Beckett and CSI's Stella, the three girls were in contact quite frequently, and although they couldn't talk about girlfriends now, they were at least good friends, and they called each other by their first names.

Cassel waved his hand unconcernedly, "At least we solved the problem, where did I just go?" Well, just as we were finding the suspected murderer, another homicide happened."

It can only be said that he is a well-known writer, and Cassel's mouth is as fascinating as his pen.

Just as Cassel and Beckett were working together to find the killer, another female corpse was found in the rooftop pool of a high-end apartment in the city center.

The deceased wears a yellow evening gown and gold heels, exactly the same as the scene from another Kassel book, The Death of the Prom Queen.

The internet was disconnected at home today and it was just fixed.

(End of chapter)