Nothing From Nothing — a mystery action thriller

NOTHING FROM NOTHING

A Jake Burbank Mystery

CHAPTER ONE

Brill Wingfield went home.

It was in the middle of the country, just south of middle of the state.

A delta backwater that once was the jewel in the crown of cotton country. Back in the day. A century ago.

Now it was on a long slow decline.

Abandoned homes. Empty lots. Crime.

Brill knew how it happened.

He got off a bus at a station four blocks from Main Street and stared at a vacant lot next to a crumbling mansion.

Pink paint faded to a color that wasn’t in the rainbow spectrum. Covered with grime from car exhaust at a four bay car wash across the street.

Vines covered the front of the two story structure. Nature may have been the only thing holding the balcony up.

The Bluff, as they called it growing up, was a victim of laws in other states.

Back when it was a crown jewel, the population was high. There were factories to work with, and industry keeping unemployment low.

There were good schools and safe neighborhoods where kids biked from sunrise to sunset, and played and roamed.