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She took her oath seriously and ended up sacrificing the only job she ever wanted.Īs I worked on Through the Cracks, my first book about Anni, I hoped that the plot, which concerns the US government’s chipping away of civil liberties in the name of national security, would be out of date before it was published, but sadly surveillance of dissidents and loss of privacy persist, even with a new administration. Her career ended when she was summoned to testify in a brutality case against a fellow officer. Anni is trying to figure out what to do with her life after resigning from the Chicago Police Department.
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She’s my height and weight, but more of her weight is muscle and, unlike me, she’s of mixed race, is brave, and knows how to kick ass when necessary.
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My series character is an ex-cop named Anni Koskinen.
Writing helps me figure out what I think and feel, and it helps me blow off steam when I’m frustrated. This article first appeared in Mystery Scene Spring Issue #114. The California Roll, John Vorhaus, Shaye Areheart, March 2019, $23.00 If scammers catch you with your guard down, there’s almost nothing they can’t do. So if you think you’re too smart or savvy or pretty to get hustled, think again.
It’s called rushing the mark, getting you so wound up, so agitated, that you do things reflexively. (Which of course is what they wanted, and who knows how much they would’ve charged to ransom it back.) How did they do it? By jacking up the pressure, hard and swift. You’d have seen it coming, right? Maybe, but I was there, and I can tell you it happened so fast that they came this close to getting my passport. Two seconds later, I look back, and all three players have vanished, scattered like dry leaves in the Moscow chill.
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Cranking my dudgeon up to full high, I tell the guy with the badge, “You’re not a cop! You’re not a cop!” and quickly walk away.
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I’m being pigeon dropped! Right here in Red Square! Me, the author of The California Roll! I literally wrote the book on scams, and they’re trying to hustle me in the classic manner of putting free money in my path and then using my own greed, fear, or innocence to strip-mine my wallet. I’m starting to sweat visions of gulags dance in my head. I was just trying to be a nice guy, right? But try telling that to the Russians when you don’t speak Russian. The others immediately comply, and I’m reaching for mine, already wondering how much trouble I’ve accidentally stumbled into here. With his available English, he orders all of us to turn over our passports for inspection. But he has a badge, which he flashes quickly and then puts away. He’s wearing blue jeans and a scruffy leather jacket. That’s ok-I like being a hero-but now here comes a third party, drawn to the scene by all the commotion, and this guy’s a cop.
Then a second guy arrives on the scene, saying he saw the whole thing and making me out to be some kind of hero. But he’s no American, as he proves by thanking me effusively in broken English and trying to give me a reward. Plus, I notice it’s got US currency in it. I’m going to return it, right? I’m a nice guy. I’m walking through Red Square in Moscow, Russia, gawking like the tourist I am, when the guy in front of me drops his wallet. But the thing about con artists is, if they hit you when your guard is down, you might not be quite as smart, savvy, or pretty as you think. They are, they insist, too smart, too savvy, or just too damn pretty to get duped. As the author of The California Roll, a novel about con artists, I often hear people boast that they’d never fall for the scams I describe.
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