All Day and a Night: A Novel of Suspense (Ellie Hatcher) by Alafair Burke

Author:Alafair Burke [Burke, Alafair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

THIRTY-ONE

Thomas took the McDonald’s bag from Carrie with two fingers.

“Trust me, Thomas. The taste of warm, soft pickles on ketchup-smothered meat product is way better than you’re going to want to admit.”

“Well, with that kind of sales pitch, how can I possibly resist?” He removed the contents and smoothed the paper bag on the hotel room’s desk like a placemat. If he asked for a knife and fork, she was going to snatch that food away from him and make him starve.

“You did a great job,” she said, looking around the room. She had spent the morning at the library, printing out archived articles about the case, and at the city attorney’s office, requesting public records. In the meantime, he had converted the non-bedroom areas of her suite—the largest in the hotel—into a functional working space. He had pulled the desk away from the wall and scrounged up an extra chair, creating a two-sided desk, complete with both of their laptops. He had placed the various boxes and Redwelds of files, neatly labeled, around the small table in the corner.

“Linda said we can take a meeting room if we need more space,” he said. “I thought it was easier to make do here than to have to traipse down to the lobby constantly.”

“Makes sense to me.”

“Okay, but Linda told me to make sure you got the message: Spare no expense. This case could be worth millions of dollars. It’s very exciting, don’t you think? And I have to admit: this hamburger is much better than I remembered. I don’t think I’ve had McDonald’s for ten years.”

Based on Carrie’s experience, the people who insisted they never ate fast food had a cabinet full of Happy Meal souvenir cups. But she was starting to think that Thomas was as honest and eager as he appeared. As someone who had frequently been criticized for being “overly earnest,” she appreciated his openness.

She heard the first few bars of a Journey song on his cell phone. “It’s Linda!” He couldn’t have been more excited if Santa Claus himself were calling. “Hi, Linda. I was just talking to Carrie about the workspace here, and she agrees that we’re fine for now. We’ll let you know if that changes . . . Uh-huh . . . Yes, she’s right here.” He held the phone in her direction. “She wants to talk to you.”

“Hi, Linda.”

“Are you sitting down?”

“Yeah, sure.” As a hat tip to the virtue of honesty, she made a point of perching on the edge of the bed.

“I have amazing news. Amazing! Martin Overton called me first thing this morning. He has those two detectives up there. They’re scrambling for more evidence because—get this—we were right. Not only did Majors lie about that confession, he also led their one eyewitness. We’ve taken down their entire case. And I convinced Judge Johnsen that if the only evidence they had is invalid, they can’t swap out new evidence eighteen years later. And guess what? We won!”

“Didn’t we basically win yesterday?” Carrie was pretty sure that their success was the reason she was in Utica.

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