A Garden Of Vipers by Kerley Jack

Author:Kerley, Jack [Kerley, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9780451412331
Publisher: Onyx
Published: 2006-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

He tried to argue me out of the tab, lost. We knocked knuckles and he drifted out the door.

I looked at his back as he left, wondering what he was trying to say.

My cell rang as I stood to leave a few minutes later, thinking I’d follow Shuttles’s lead, go home and do mindless tasks until I fell asleep. I checked the number on the incoming call.

It was Clair, her cell, not the morgue. I answered.

“Hi, Clair. I was going to call you in the morning.

Your lead on the victim from four years back looks tied to today.”

“I hope it helps. You at home? Work?”

“Flanagan’s, about to head home.”

“I’m finishing up at the morgue,” she said. “Got a few minutes?”

“Want me to call Harry, see if he’s available?”

“Just you, please.”

“I’ll be right over.”

I rang the after-hours bell, was let in by a security guard. It was quiet as, well, death, a lone janitor running a mop at the far end of the hall. Clair was at her desk catching up on paperwork. She gestured for me to sit, dropped her lanyarded reading glasses. She brushed aside a lock of black hair and sipped from a cup of hot tea, Earl Grey, judging by the scent of bergamot. Her eyes stared at me through wisps of steam. For a microsecond I felt whatever slender bond held us, a rustling of molecules in the air.

“I’ve been worried about something, Carson. Debating with myself whether or not to . . . It’s never been my inclination to poke into people’s private lives.”

She picked up a paperweight, a dandelion trapped in a glassy half-round, moving it from one side of her desk to the other with nervous hands, a rarity for Clair. She cleared her throat, took a sip of tea.

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