2009. Olathe, KansasA real estate mystery short story.Trimmed hedges. Minivans. Quiet streets at ten in the morning. Nearly every suburban street looks the same as the next.But behind the front doors, the Great Recession is doing its work.
Layoffs. Maxed-out credit cards. Proud men staring out kitchen windows of houses they can no longer afford.Real estate agent Cal Brink is feeling it, too. Sales are down thirty percent, and he's working nights at a camera store to cover an assistant he can't bring himself to let go. So, when an anonymous woman calls his forgotten desk phone and tells him to check out a house—right now—he goes.He knows better.
But nine years as a process server and private investigator in Washington, DC, taught him to trust the voice that whispers to him.Behind the nicest house on the block, the patio door is open a quarter of an inch.Notice of Default is a forty-five-minute short story about what happens when a signature becomes a trap, and what a man does when he realizes he has nothing left to lose. No car chases. No shootouts. Just the quiet machinery of paperwork, and what it does to ordinary people on an ordinary street.Welcome to The Cal Brink Files, where pens steal more money than guns.
