Beryl Kent and the Bleeding Man by K.B. Pellegrino

Author:K.B. Pellegrino
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: WESTMASS OPM, LLC
Published: 2021-10-19T16:34:53+00:00

Grace Grantley, smarting from her ejection from her partner’s room by her own partner, headed for Captain Rudy Beauregard’s residence. She’d researched the location and with her GPS was there in no time. She thought, I love these smaller cities and burbs. The traffic is not Atlanta’s traffic. It takes over an hour to get cross town. Here, I’m at Beauregard’s house in an adjourning city in twelve minutes. Nice house! The pay must be good here or the cost of living is really low. Probably is the second one. Now how will I get by the wife is the question I have. Her name from Google is ‘Mona.’ A cop’s wife isn’t always easy to push around. Google says she is a high school teacher or counselor. I guess she’s done both. I better play it straight; after all, she is the sentry.

The pretty red front door was opened quickly by a woman. Grace introduced herself. “Mrs. Beauregard, I apologize for bringing police business to your home, but I’m here from Atlanta for just a few days. I understand the Captain is recovering from a broken leg, but I just need a few minutes with him. My client is the man called ‘the bleeding man’ in the newspapers and I surely think the Captain may want to talk to me while I’m in town. Would you please ask him to give me an audience.”

Mona laughed and said, “Attorney Grantley, do I have the name right? Rudy is not the pope and asking for an audience may tickle him. Please come in. If he’s feeling well, he’ll see you. If he says ‘no,’ Attorney, it is ‘no.’ Okay?”

Grace waited in the entry knowing Beauregard, if he were like any MCU detective, would want to know more about his victim, and she had keys to at least some gossip. Mona returned and with domestic kindness offered her coffee as they walked toward his den. Introductions made, Grace sat in a comfortable chair, and Mona placed a coffee and small tray of cookies remarking, “For you, Grace, they are not for my patient.”

Captain Beauregard grimaced at Mona’s caution. His denial from eating cookies interfered with any portrait of the Captain having the appearance of his reputation as a great sleuth and closer of cases to her. She thought, all the brouhaha about him as the nemesis for serial murderers and he looks rather ordinary. I suppose the broken leg doesn’t help. One never knows how smart or deceptive or ingenious another is. Actions tell the story not words. Compare Harry and Jed. Both were brilliant lawyers but on opposite sides of any established moral business prospective. Perhaps I should be very careful of Beauregard. I don’t really know what my partners know or have done. Beauregard will suspect preservation of the reputation of the firm for myself and Jed as my reason for being here.

“Captain, I’ve read a great deal about you and your detectives’ ability to solve murder cases. I’m comfortable you will go the distance.

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