Angel Maker: An Unputdownable Crime Thriller With A Chilling Twist (DI Jamie Johansson Book 1) by Morgan Greene

Author:Morgan Greene [Greene, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mercury Books
Published: 2021-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

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Jamie was sitting in the back of an ambulance having a torch shone in her eyes when Wiik pulled into the driveway and skidded to a halt on the slick tarmac.

The Gunnarsons’ front lawn was a sea of flashing lights. Two ambulances were at the scene, as well as four squad cars, two canine units, Hallberg, and now Wiik.

He kicked his door open and swept from his car, throwing the tail of his long coat from around his arms as he stormed towards Jamie.

She sighed, brushed the penlight away from her face and thanked the paramedic checking her over. He glanced at Wiik, realised that sticking around was probably a bad idea, and then evaporated into the blue haze.

‘Hey,’ Jamie said, sighing and rubbing her forearm. Mikael Gunnarson wasn’t a fighter by any means, but his knuckles had caught her, and it was still aching horribly.

‘Hey?’ Wiik asked incredulously, standing over her and putting his hands on his hips. ‘What were you thinking?’

Jamie narrowed her eyes at him. ‘I’m fine, thanks for asking,’ she said.

Wiik’s nostrils flared, and then he exhaled hard, smoothing down his hair. ‘You could have been killed.’

‘So could have Mikael.’ Jamie set her jaw. ‘Åsa was.’ She turned and nodded towards the house. Two paramedics were walking out, pulling off their gloves. Mikael had been unharmed, but Åsa hadn’t made it. Jamie only had to take one look at the holes in the walls to know there was no coming back from a direct hit like that.

The gunman had shot to kill, and he’d succeeded.

Wiik stood stoically now and looked out into the darkness, the fog still thick around the house.

Torch beams moved intermittently through the trees in the distance as the canine units combed the forest for the shooter. Jamie knew he was long gone by now. But just finding his nest, maybe a few shell casings, anything, would be a start. She wasn’t so sure of the shooter’s identity, but she knew Wiik had already made up his mind, was hoping the canine units would corner Eriksson out there.

‘You shouldn’t have rushed in like that,’ Wiik muttered, his anger riling against something else. Concern?

Jamie cast an eye past him at Hallberg, who was hovering near the front of her car. She was on her phone, but kept glancing over. How much had she told Wiik, exactly?

‘And what else was I supposed to do?’ Jamie asked, genuinely not knowing the answer.

‘Wait, call for backup,’ he answered plainly.

‘It would have taken twenty minutes for the nearest officers to arrive – and you know as well as I do,’ Jamie said, trying to keep the coldness out of her voice, ‘that they’d be some inexperienced bumbling country-born uniforms who’d be about as much help as… as…’ Jamie trailed off, shaking her head. She couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t a joke, and she didn’t much feel like laughing.

‘I don’t care,’ Wiik said.

‘If I hadn’t gone in, then Mikael could have been killed.’

‘Åsa was anyway, and did you

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