title: The Accidental Detective: Supervising Murder
author: Dana Wilks
description: Although born in Southern California, Dana Wilks was raised in Colorado. She is a two-time graduate of Colorado State University and a long time Colorado Judicial Branch employee. She currently resides in Denver, with her partner, Kim. The Accidental Detective is Dana's first book and only foray into fiction. She prefers to work in non-fiction, chronicling her various treks and misadventures for the personal entertainment of friends and family. An avid traveler, Dana enjoys blogging during her trips and is currently working on a collection of essays, based on her solo trip around the world. In 2005, Dana contributed two pieces for publication in Canceling the Milk: Stories and Poems of Loss, a collection of selected writings. Additionally, through the magic of NaNoWriMo 2008, she finished writing a book on the most recent presidential election cycle. Editing is pending. Dana is excited to donate all proceeds, from the sale of The Accidental Detective, to the Rotary Club's scholarship in her niece's name. Ashley Wilks was murdered in Portland, Oregon on January 24, 2009.
zlib_text: > _Vengeance in Death_  
  > ---  
  > In Death [6]  
  > J. D. Robb  
  > Penguin (1998)  
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  > Rating: | ★★★★☆  
  > Tags: | Mystery & Detective  
    
  # Chapter 1
  
    
    
    
  
  The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the
  monotonous. Lieutenant Eve Dallas had them all.  
  
  She knew the act of murder required none of these. All too often a life was
  taken on impulse, in rage, for amusement, or simply out of stupidity. It was
  the last of these, in Eve's mind, that had led one John Henry Bonning to throw
  one Charles Michael Renekee out a twelfth-story window on Avenue D.  
  
  She had Bonning in Interview and calculated that it would take another twenty
  minutes tops to shake a confession out of him, another fifteen to book him and
  file her report. She might just make it home on time.  
  
  "Come on, Boner." It was her veteran cop talking to veteran bad guy. Level
  ground, her turf. "Do yourself a favor. A confession, and you can go for self-
  defense and diminished 