A Taste to Die For by C K Martin

Author:C K Martin [Martin, C K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rogue Hedgehog Media
Published: 2015-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

Teddie walked back to her office, trying to not let the prospect of four hours of files and paperwork kill the mood. She checked her phone as she stepped into the elevator, and a little voice at the back of her brain reminded her she still hadn’t heard any more from Tammy. She shut it down. Tammy wasn’t her responsibility anymore.

The only people who depended on her were either already dead or trying real hard not to be.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Teddie flicked the television onto mute and threw the remote down onto the couch next to her. It bounced off the stack of files causing them to wobble precariously until she grabbed them and stopped them from sliding off onto the floor. She looked around guiltily, even though it was her apartment and she was very much there alone. Again. Only she knew the horror of having to recompile a stack of mixed up paperwork off your own carpet.

Instead she reached over and took her first pull on the bottle of beer at her side. She had promised herself one - just one - to get through the evening. Conventional wisdom indicated it was probably not wise to work on a case when drunk, even informally. Teddie was actually hoping that a little bit of alcohol would relax her enough to make the connection she had so far missed. She wasn’t the first cop to do it and she wouldn’t be the last.

Patricia Maughan was dead. Brett Li had still been in a coma when she had called the hospital on the drive home. And nobody, absolutely nobody, seemed to want either woman dead.

Sighing, she put down the beer and picked up the top file instead. Even though most of the evidence they had on any case was backed up to computer and instantly accessible for those who needed it, Teddie still liked being able to look at the paper files. The picture on the top, there to physically hold, reminded her why.

Patricia Maughan had been a fairly attractive woman, but it wasn’t just her looks that caught Teddie’s eye as she skimmed the paper. It was the sense of power that came from her, even though the picture itself was just a standard publicity shot for the show. It wasn’t the face of a desperate reality star, hoping to get their fifteen minutes of fame. It was the face of a woman who didn’t need the show to make her. She had grown up around true power and being able to cook some mean ribs wasn’t it.

The political angle made the most sense, but that wouldn’t account for wanting to kill Brett too. Teddie put the file down and picked up her phone, tempted to call Jolanta and see if she was ready to share an opinion yet. No, she reminded herself, that was called harassment. Teddie put the phone down and instead shuffled her way through the files until she found the separate one relating to Brett. She flipped open the cover and took the picture off the top of the stack.

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