1250074193 by John Fortunato

Author:John Fortunato [Fortunato, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466885837
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

OCTOBER 1

FRIDAY, 2:10 P.M.

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

After lunch, Joe had stopped at a Walgreens and picked up a pack of Life Savers. He used to call them “Job Savers” back when he worried about Dale finding out he’d tipped one back midday. But he didn’t care anymore. What could Dale do now? Joe would be out by Christmas. Ho ho ho.

When Joe told him about Nick Garcia, Dale said to hold off releasing the news for an hour, until he notified D.C. So Joe waited. He was playing the game, keeping Dale happy.

Work proved to be good therapy. It helped push Gillian from his mind. He hadn’t considered before now what finding Nick Garcia’s body would mean to the investigation. It made the theory that Edgerton and Faye had run away together that much more feasible. If either one of them had been found, it would have changed things considerably. But that wasn’t the case. The dogs had combed the area around the vehicle. Only one body.

Joe pulled out a photo of Nick from the file. The driver/would-be writer wore a tux and stood next to a woman in a pink fluffy dress. A wedding photo? Joe hadn’t found any mention of Nick’s friends in the file. Malcolm, the lead investigator at the time, had sure done a real bang-up job. So much for a thorough investigation. Joe studied the picture, trying to get a feel for the dead man. Nick looked happy. He was big and round, and he fit the stereotype of the jolly fat guy. He also wore glasses, which hadn’t been found with the body. Joe stared at the photo. He was missing something. He could feel it. Why would Edgerton kill this man? A friend. It would have been much easier for the congressman simply to drive himself that day. Give Nick the day off. No, Edgerton hadn’t killed him. He was sure of it now. What about Faye? Could Faye have killed Nick and Edgerton? If so, then where was Edgerton’s body? And how could Faye have dragged Nick so far from the vehicle to bury him? And how did she get out of there? She’d left the vehicle, so she would have needed a ride, someone to pick her up. She could have stashed a car nearby, but she would still have needed someone to get her back to Albuquerque. Bobby Lopez? It didn’t make sense.

Then it hit him. Drag the body. Nick was big. Too heavy to drag too far. No, they hadn’t found the others because they were buried much farther away. The killer would have figured that someday the vehicle would be found, so he or she would have wanted to drag the bodies as far as possible so they wouldn’t be found. But Nick had been too big. Too heavy. He checked Nick’s driver’s license. Five nine, 285 pounds. The others were out there. Joe felt certain of it. He would get the dogs out again and expand the search area.

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