Luke Watanabe

Luke Watanabe, a character in the Crimes of Passion series, is your colleague and the "data guy" of the Ginovesi Private Detective Agency. He is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Luke has short brown hair, light skin, brown eyes and a small beard. He has a piercing on his left eyebrow, an earing on his left ear, and wears glasses. He also wears a green khaki shirt and a grey bomber jacket with blue jeans.

Personality
According to Luke, he is surly and he hates his job. He also doesn't want to date someone like him. According to Ruby, Luke is also bitter and pretentious.

Background
Luke was a black hat, who was arrested by the FBI. He had discovered a scam at a major debt collections agency, where millions of dollars were being stolen from the country's most vulnerable citizens. Instead of just reporting it to the authorities, Luke also posted all of the CEO's most embarassing messages on Twitter. Luke feels the FBI got lucky catching him and should be thanking him instead of busting him. However, that was not the case and Luke was sentenced for an undetermined amount of time. Part of Luke's sentence was that he was only allowed to use computers in assistance of law enforcement, but due to a loophole in New York state law, private agencies also qualify for a means of employment. His probabtion is up in about a year, at which point he is free to go or stay wherever he wants to.

Crimes of Passion

 * Chapter 1: Cross Your Heart
 * Chapter 2: Follow My Lead
 * Chapter 3: Body Language
 * Chapter 4: The Royal Treatment
 * Chapter 5: Up In Flames
 * Chapter 6: Sleep When You're Dead
 * Chapter 7: Cold Call
 * Chapter 8: Forging Ahead

Your Character
You are Luke's co-worker. You two appear on friendly terms, and you are aware of his interest in Ruby. If you mention it, he says he finds the insinuation extremely unprofessional.

Ruby Webster
According to you, Luke and Ruby have a "thing". Although Ruby seems oblivious to Luke's interest and Luke doesn't like his crushes being brought to light, they are friends. She knows he gets queasy if he looks at dead bodies.

Trystan Thorne
Luke meets Trystan when the latter comes to the agency and hires you to solve Sonja Dormer's murder. If you decide to grab lunch with the team, Trystan tells Luke that he's surprised that Luke doesn't work for himself or in Silicon Valley, and instead works for "the man" (the government / the police).

Trivia

 * He shares the same name as Luke Harper from the Desire & Decorum series.
 * He shares the same surname as Sakura Watanabe from the High School Story series and Takeshi Watanabe from the Bloodbound series.
 * In Chapter 3, he is stated to vape. His current flavor of choice is Froot Loops.
 * In Chapter 8, it is mentioned that his mother died due to Malpractice when he was 10. He also dropped out of MIT.