The Night Watchman by Mark Mynheir

The provided text offers extensive excerpts from the novel, "The Night Watchman," featuring the protagonist, Ray Quinn, an injured former homicide detective now working as a night watchman at a condominium. The narrative primarily focuses on Quinn's reluctant investigation into a closed murder-suicide case involving David Hendricks and Jamie DeAngelo, prompted by Hendricks's sister, Pam, who believes her brother was murdered. Quinn, aided by his eager but clumsy colleague Crevis, uncovers evidence suggesting a deeper conspiracy connecting the murders to a powerful group known as the Lion's Den and corrupt local officials. The plot intensifies as Quinn realizes the murder weapon is linked to the shooting that ended his police career and killed his partner a year earlier, driving him to expose the killer, who is ultimately revealed to be Dean Yarborough, a police crime scene investigator.