And So It Began by Owen Mullen

Author:Owen Mullen [Mullen, Owen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books

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The Monday meeting was short: under an hour. Only the local guys were there because the weekend had produced no new activity from the killer which meant the FBI could put their travelling show on hold. Nobody had anything new to report. Delaup gave out the same directive as before: keep looking. Then, he headed off to get an update from the officers handling the hunt for Julian Boutte.

Danny caught up with me in the corridor. ‘How goes it, Delaney?’

‘All right. What about you?’

‘Same old, same old.’

‘So I hear. Delaup isn’t exactly an ideas man, is he?’

He shrugged the criticism away. ‘He’s solid enough. It isn’t easy to find a way into this one.’

‘Guess not. Anything else?’

‘Well, we lost a couple of guys last week. Drugs bust that went wrong.’

‘Heard about that. Any sign of the perps?’

‘None. No sign of drugs either.’

‘Suspicious?’

‘Not really, just a disappointing lack of evidence.’

‘Who were they?’

‘One of them was the guy you asked about.’

He glanced at me but didn’t push it and changed the subject. ‘Not getting very, far are we?’

‘Still early days.’

‘For us, maybe. Not for the next victim out there it isn’t.’ Fitzy shook his head. ‘This is one smart mother. Wherever he is he must be laughing at us.’

I slapped him on the shoulder. ‘We’ll get him.’

He needed convincing. ‘And so far, no sign of Boutte. Thinking is he’s left the state by now. I don’t buy it, though it takes the heat off.’

‘Doesn’t surprise me. Juli has friends in Algiers. Plenty of people willing to hide him for as long as it takes. He’ll show himself when he’s ready.’

Danny was uneasy. ‘Yeah. When he’s ready. What about you?’

‘I’ll be ready for him. I’m ready now.’

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