"This Night in Question," by Tod Goldberg,in Witnesses for the Dead, edited by Gary Phillips and Gar Anthony Haywood, Soho Press, 2022.
This is Goldberg's third appearance in this column.
Cecil, the narrator, is a third generation mobster in California. The police show him a video of his daughter being beaten by an ex-lover, who then takes her and her own daughter away.
Cecil assumes his child is dead. The police are searching for the culprit and the child but Cecil has his own investigation to conduct, and it's not limited by any rulebook.
This is a grim story but it is believable and well-written.
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