Angel Among Us by Katy Munger

Author:Katy Munger [Munger, Katy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Published: 2012-07-04T07:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

The media had the station house under siege once again.

‘Don’t these people ever stop?’ Calvano asked. ‘Isn’t this Sunday?’

Maggie sighed and she sounded tired. ‘I don’t know what day it is, so I can’t tell you.’

They climbed from the car. The crowd of reporters gauged whether they were worth their attention. Skip Bostwick stood among them, a bandage covering his nose. Purple bruises bloomed around each eye. He glared at Maggie and Calvano but looked away without saying anything. He was going to keep it to himself.

‘Nice work,’ Maggie told Calvano. They pushed their way through the crowd, refusing to answer any questions. Lindsey Stanford had been expecting the brush-off and she was ready. Giving her cameraman a signal, she snapped into on-camera mode and began her monologue. ‘Meanwhile, authorities are refusing to cooperate with the media and are stonewalling reporters on their progress. This has led more than one observer to remark that it is unlikely they have any leads in the case. Arcelia Gallagher has been missing for over forty-eight hours and chances are growing that the outcome of this story will not be a happy one. None of these developments appear to trouble her husband, Daniel Gallagher, who remains free – despite a growing consensus that he, and only he, knows what happened to his wife.’

If Lindsey Stanford thought it would rattle Maggie, she was wrong. Maggie just shook her head slightly and pushed through the double doors into the station house, past a line of uniformed men assigned to keep the media hordes outside.

Freddy, the desk sergeant who had ruled the front counter for decades, called out to Maggie as soon as he saw her. ‘There’s some Mexican guy hanging around the lobby who says he’ll only talk to the two of you. He went out for some coffee, but he’ll be back. He says it’s important. The guy seemed terrified.’

‘What do you mean some Mexican guy?’ Maggie asked. ‘Can you be more specific?’

Freddy shrugged. ‘He looked like a Mexican guy.’

Maggie gave him a look of disgust and headed for the elevator as Calvano scurried after her. ‘What’s your problem?’ he asked as they stepped into in the car.

Maggie jabbed the floor button angrily. ‘Did you ever think we wouldn’t be in this mess if this whole town didn’t assume that all Mexicans looked alike?’

But Calvano’s conscience was clear. ‘No, I don’t think that. But I do think we wouldn’t be in this mess if some massive scumbag hadn’t taken Arcelia Gallagher.’

‘Point well taken,’ Maggie conceded. She seemed reluctant to leave the elevator when they reached the fourth floor. The closer they got to Gonzales’s office, the slower she walked. She was directing the investigation and she knew that his priorities did not coincide with hers. She wanted to find Arcelia Gallagher and the other missing woman. He wanted to make sure that he came off looking good in the press, that the case fueled his rise to the top, and that the local fat cats were pleased with how the town came off in the national press.

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