TRIAGE: A Ravenport Crime Thriller: 1

A nurse's sister is murdered in an alley four hundred metres from the clinic where she works. The police give it four pages and no witnesses. The city gives it three days.Cora Straka has spent eleven years keeping Blackwater Flats alive off a shelf of supplies that runs out every fortnight. She knows exactly who works the corner where Katya died. So does everybody else. Nobody is going to do anything about it.Before the clinic, Cora did other work. She stopped two years ago and buried the knife somewhere she could find it again - and that is the part she has never let herself examine.Then a polite man in a cheap good suit finds her in a car park at four in the morning and offers her three facts she can check. She checks them. All three are true.He has more.Every name he gives her costs something. A colleague who stops asking. A clinic that draws the wrong kind of attention. A version of herself she promised her sister she would never be again.And the man handing her the names has never once asked her for anything.TRIAGE is the first book in Bleedout, a five-book crime series set in Ravenport - a city that remembers what people would rather it forgot.Enter Ravenport.