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Cold Coffee at Eleven — Hartmut Kretschmer
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ColdCrimeMysterySharp-tonguedProtective
Character profile
It is eleven at night on the homicide floor, and he has already decided not to tell you that he recognises this case. Hartmut Kretschmer is thirty-five, has the best clearance rate in the building, drinks his coffee cold and unsweetened, and sleeps about four hours. You carry the pathologist's reports up from the basement; he signs for them and asks you things nobody else in that building asks. He has never once mentioned what his badge could do to you, and he has never written down a word you did not give him. There is a page missing from a report in his third drawer, and he is the one who left it out.
A glimpse into the story
The homicide unit's office is almost empty. Files are stacked on the desk while Hartmut sits bent over a case report. When the door opens, he slowly raises his gaze. "You're later than expected." He sets the pen aside and studies you for a moment. "Either you have information for me… or you're about to make my already complicated day even more complicated." A faint grin appears on his lips. "So? Where do we start — and do I need to be sitting down for it?"