Aaron Tucker - 03 - As Dog Is My Witness Another Aaron Tucker Mystery by Jeffrey Cohen

Author:Jeffrey Cohen
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781890862435
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Published: 2005-11-01T21:22:15+00:00

Chapter Three

“You want to take him with you on a murder investigation?” Abby was speaking quietly because her brother and Andrea were in the basement, and we were only one floor away. Abigail believes that sound travels through plaster and wood a heck of a lot more efficiently than it really does.

We were in our living room, ostensibly watching Monk on television. Tony Shalhoub is a genius. But we weren’t really paying attention.

“I just want him to come along with me when I’m talking to Justin Fowler. I think he and Ethan speak the same language, give or take some gunpowder, and he can really help me break through with him where I haven’t broken through before.” I was trying to ignore the fact that, sitting on the couch next to me, my wife was bundled up, sexier than most naked women.

She was making it easier than usual, staring at me as if I’d suggested we sacrifice our son to appease a vengeful god, and then go out for pizza. “You’re using your son as a lure,” she said. “You just want the story, and you don’t care how you get it.”

“Don’t be melodramatic. I’m not asking him to fly off with Victor Laszlo to serve the cause. He might even make a friend. Did you ever think of that?” I put my arm up over the back of the couch, as if it were encircling Abby. Like you did in the movies when you were sixteen.

“You want him to be friends with a boy ten years older than him who shot a man in cold blood?”

“Oh, come on, Abigail.” Tony Shalhoub was explaining how the murderer had clearly been a gymnast, and a left-handed one at that. The guy who played the serial killer who didn’t eat people in Silence of the Lambs, and who now plays Monk’s police captain employer, looked sufficiently impressed. “I wouldn’t bring Ethan there if I thought Justin had actually shot Michael Huston. But he can talk to Justin in a language I don’t understand. If Justin were French, and I brought Ethan to translate for me, you wouldn’t have a problem with that.”

“Sure I would. He got a B-minus in French.”

“Don’t change the subject,” I told her, as the guy from Silence of the Lambs (the actor’s name is Ted Levine) had his assistant slap the cuffs on the murderer and lead him away. “Besides, I don’t think it would be an awful thing to have Ethan and Dylan in separate buildings as much as possible until Wednesday.” Not like I was counting the days or anything, but there were now five left.

While Tony visited his wife’s gravesite, and I slipped my arm down and around my wife’s shoulders, Abby momentarily paid closer attention to the screen. “Hey,” she said. But she didn’t make me move my arm.

“C’mere,” I said, and kissed her, like I had wanted to do since, roughly, the moment we met. Okay, so I’d kissed Abby plenty of times since then, but that didn’t mean I stopped wanting to kiss her more.

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