A Possibility of Violence by D. A. Mishani

Author:D. A. Mishani
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

HE DIDN’T THINK ABOUT MARIANKA UNTIL the end of the meeting, and only twice checked his cell phone under the table to see if he’d received any new messages. Ilana kept on insisting that Sara should not be the only direction of the investigation, and Avraham didn’t bother to object. He and Ilana drank another cup of coffee and at ten thirty divided the tasks among the team. Ilana instructed Zaytuni to continue investigating the assault as if it were a robbery. He’d explore links to incidents of assault that occurred in the area in recent months, go back and question the Sudanese men who found Chava Cohen in the ditch, and regularly monitor whether her credit cards were being used or if the stolen phone was turned on or sold. Ma’alul was put in charge of investigating the parents at the daycare. He was supposed to confirm the suspicion that Chava Cohen hit the children and verify whether or not any other parents had a motive for assaulting the teacher. Avraham would continue conducting surveillance from afar, as well as his silent investigation into Sara and his wife. Since the previous evening, after he bought the airplane tickets, Sara hadn’t left his apartment and hadn’t made a phone call. “And, most of all, let’s cross our fingers that the victim will wake up and make our lives easier,” Ilana summed up. “If it doesn’t happen by then, we’ll meet here Thursday morning and decide how we want to bring Sara in for questioning before the flight.”

Ma’alul again asked for permission to speak. He turned to Avraham and said, “Avi, before we start working, I’d like you to explain to me why you’re so sure it’s Sara. Because you’re sure of this, yes? And I respect your gut feelings.”

Was there a need to explain again?

He was sure because of the phone call and the motive and the plane tickets. Because of the strange travel story. And there were additional reasons, that he managed to explain to himself only retrospectively, once the case had come to an end. Ilana examined Ma’alul’s facial expression and large eyes while Avraham spoke. He wasn’t convinced, and she asked him why.

“I would be convinced if this were a spontaneous attack,” Ma’alul said. “At the daycare, for example, or immediately after it was closed. But if there actually is a connection between the suitcase and the assault, there appears to be a clear pattern of criminal activity here—placing a fake bomb and making a phone threat after that and then a meeting late at night in an empty place. It all attests to a criminal plan and not to violence stemming from a loss of control. It’s hard for me to believe that a fifty-seven-year-old man, without a criminal past, would, or could, carry out well-planned acts like these. Guys like him resort to violence spontaneously, and sometimes unintentionally, out of a loss of control. On the other hand, I didn’t question him or see him, and I’m willing to go with Avi’s gut feelings.

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