NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT
by Chris Lengquist
A Cal Brink Case File
A One-Sitting Thriller
Releasing Fall of 2026
Notice of Assignment
A One-Sitting Thriller
The Cal Brink Series
In August 2010, Kansas City real estate agent Cal Brink buys a distressed property in Columbus Park for $29,000 and figures the hardest part will be the renovation. He figures wrong.
Behind a basement wall he finds a silver box containing a revolver, a photograph, and a cassette tape, evidence that connects him to a surveillance job he did in Washington, DC, twenty-two years earlier and to a murder he didn't commit but may have caused.
Within forty-eight hours someone has torn apart his house looking for what he found. By Monday, he has his family hidden away, driven 1,080 miles, and is walking back into a world he thought he had left behind.
The document that started all of it was the last one he signed at closing. He didn't read it.
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Crime Fiction with a Real Estate bent
Cal Brink's First Serve
Excerpt from Master of Parking Lots
Chapter 4, in the Cal Brink Series
"I've never served a subpoena before. What's the training?" I asked.
Tommy reached into his jacket's left breast pocket, and pulled out folded papers, about three. He laid them on the table for me to pick up.
Subpoena was written right up at the top. The plaintiff was listed, as was the defendant. So was the person being required to show up at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County (6th Judicial Circuit) in ten days. The subject and the defendant were the same. It was a divorce case.
When I looked back at Tommy, I noticed there was another $50 bill on the table. "Go ahead and pick it up. When you do, it's an employment contract." Tommy finished his beer and nodded at the the front bar. "The bartender is David Miller." Tommy slid to his right, stood up and said, "I'll see you in the office tomorrow. 9:30 sharp."
"I go by Cal, by the way," I pointed out.
"I know. That was Christine calling about the 1973 Pinto."
Then I turned to watch him walk out the front door.
I looked back at the subpoena. The subject to be served was David Miller.
Truth. Fiction. Real Estate.
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