Blood in the Water (Bonnie Parker, PI Book 2) by Michael Prescott

Author:Michael Prescott [Prescott, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-28T06:00:00+00:00

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Frank Lazzaro had never needed a lot of sleep. Three or four hours would do it for him. He had shut his eyes around three in the morning and awakened at seven. He checked his cell, thinking he must have missed a call from Rocca and Belletiere about Alec’s car. But there hadn’t been any call.

“What the fuck is up with those clowns?” he muttered.

He tried Rocca’s cell, then Belletiere’s. Both calls bounced to voicemail. He tried Belletiere’s home phone. His wife Sophie said he hadn’t been home all night. She wasn’t worried; Paul didn’t exactly keep regular hours.

But Frank was getting a little concerned. It occurred to him that the boys might have run into some trouble with the police. They’d been trespassing on the island, after all. If they’d been arrested, they would have called Frank’s attorney, Howie Springer. Frank got in touch with him. Springer hadn’t heard a thing.

This was starting to get spooky. Something wasn’t right.

Over breakfast, Frank tracked down DiRosario and Costello and told them to go to Devil’s Hook and see if the car had been moved. Victoria, washing dishes in the sink, overheard his end of the conversation and had to be told about Alec. She didn’t exactly break down in tears. She’d never been a fan of the kid, or of any of Frank’s family members. Ordinarily, Frank might have taught her a little respect, but at the moment he had other things on his mind.

He shaved, showered, and dressed in his trademark Armani suit and Charvet necktie. He was reviewing some paperwork when Costello got through to him on his cell. He and DiRosario were at the cottage, and they had bad news.

“It’s a goddamn crime scene,” Costello said. “Cops all over the place. Paulie and Lou—they’re dead, Frank.”

He shut his eyes, feeling suddenly winded. “How?”

“Dunno the details. It’s not like we can go up to the cops and ask. But Paulie’s Impala is there, and we seen two body bags being loaded onto a morgue wagon. You got a TV signal at your place?”

“Yeah, the dish is still working.”

“Turn on channel four. They got a news van here and they’re gonna go live in a minute.”

Frank switched on the set in the den and watched the live update from Devil’s Hook. Two reputed mobsters killed in a shootout. A car linked to a third party, the cottage’s owner, Alec Dante, currently a person of interest to the authorities.

Frank stamped at the remote, killing the TV. He put his head in his hands and tried to make sense of it. How the fuck …?

Maybe that little scrote Fish Face had been jerking him off. Maybe the Long Fong Boyz knew about Alec all the time and were keen on having a war. It had to be something like that. He couldn’t believe this woman, Bonnie Parker, was behind it. One gun-toting twat couldn’t do that much damage, and why would she have been back on Devil’s Hook anyway? For that matter, what would the Long Fong Boyz be doing there?

None of it added up.

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