A/N – Alright, a new story! I am so excited about this one. It's a "who done it?" mystery story and it's my first stab at writing in the point of view style. I'll say who's point of view each chapter is from, right underneath the chapter title. This first chapter is kind of short, but it's just setting the story that is to come. Please leave me a review and let me know what you think so I know if I should continue it or not!

Chapter 1 – Six Striking Suspects

Cooper

This was the murder investigation of one Detective Dante Falconeri, turned mobster Dante Corinthos, turned dead. Shot three times, once in the abdomen and twice in the chest in the alley of Jake's by his own gun. Who did it? The possibilities were endless. But I had suspects. I had six striking suspects. All with opportunity. All with motive. All very suspicious.

It's funny how a day can begin like any other day and then before you know it, you're in the middle of something life changing. Not just for you, but for everyone. For people you know and for people you don't. The person who probably experienced the most change was Dante. Going from alive to dead is a hell of a change. I knew Dante Falconeri...Corinthos...whatever. I knew him at his best and worst, but what I didn't know was which one of my suspects killed him. Ah, the suspects.

Suspect number one: Maxie Jones. When I dated Maxie she was easy and had little self confidence, but she had grown up a lot since then. Her life had direction and meaning and Dante was about three years too late with his cheesy pick up lines and never ending flirtatious attitude. But he never seemed to get the hint that Maxie didn't want him and that's what ended up making her a suspect. Everyone knew the string of insults Maxie constantly threw Dante's way and if you were looking for a suspect that hated the deceased, she was prime. But she wasn't alone in that aspect.

Suspect number two: Matt Hunter. Hunter was a decent guy and a pretty fantastic doctor who had patched me up more than once after an on-duty injury. But almost six months ago, Hunter had almost lost his right to be a doctor because of Dante. Dante had claimed malpractice and the case had almost been won, but Dante had dropped the charges at the last minute. Still, there was no shortage of bad blood between the two as a result. Dante loved to taunt Hunter and now that Dante was dead, I had to wonder if maybe Hunter finally had enough taunting.

Suspect number three: Georgie Jones. Georgie was far from a real worry for me. I mean, this was the girl next door that everyone loved and got along with. But maybe I should have reconsidered that because truthfully, if there was one person on earth that Georgie didn't like, it was Dante. She might have even hated him. Georgie constantly warned Dante to stay away from Maxie. But he never did. And I needed to consider the possibility that maybe she had decided to take matters into her own hands. Maybe "Sweet Georgie", as Spinelli called her, had decided to end the problems that Dante caused once and for all.

Suspect number four: Damien Spinelli. Now that kid wouldn't harm a fly. Not under normal circumstances. But these weren't normal circumstances and Spinelli's interesting quirks made it all the more difficult to determine if he had disliked Dante enough to cause him physical harm or not. I knew that Spinelli had some kind of relationship, apparently a serious one, with Maxie. Maybe his infatuation with Maxie was enough for him to act out against Dante. And with his unique speech it was impossible to ever tell what he was saying, much less what he might have been thinking. I really had my hands full.

Suspect number five: Lulu Spencer. She was the most interesting, well second most interesting, suspect on my list. Lulu was a colleague of mine. She was the district attorney, at least for now, of Port Charles. I wanted so badly to rule her out, but I couldn't. She had just as much motive as the others. The biggest case Lulu had taken on in the last few years had been a case against Dante. And in typical mob fashion, he managed to slip through the cracks of the system and Lulu had taken some serious heat from the mayor for not putting him behind bars. But normally, I would overlook that as motive. Had Lulu not told me once that looking into Dante's eyes made her want to knock him on his ass. Those words kept playing over in my head as I considered the possibility that Lulu might have been the one who killed Dante.

Suspect number six: Johnny Zacchara. He was my most interesting suspect. I was really interested in why he was even at Jake's that night if he wasn't there to kill Dante. Zacchara was never seen by anyone. The rumors I had always heard before said he never left his house because he was crazy, just like his old man had been. The story was told that Anthony Zacchara had been the victim of a seizure and his son had watched him die. Then proceeded to dig a hole in his mother's rose garden and throw his father in it. Then Zacchara took over the business, taking care to never leave his mansion in Crimson Pointe and never taking visitors. Completely isolating himself from the outside world. But he was at Jake's that night. The night of the murder of the son of his biggest rival. A very interesting suspect indeed.

I really had my work cut out for me. Six suspects to interview in a few hours and no real place to start. I just had to take their statements and see how their stories matched up. But since it had been a day and a half since Dante's death, there was a small possibility that they had all collaborated a story together. I had to be at the very peak of my investigative skills to decipher who was lying and who was telling the truth. I had to solve the murder and put someone in prison.

Six suspects. Six interviews. One very interesting afternoon.