Brotherhood in Death by J. D. Robb

Author:J. D. Robb [Robb, J. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781410486264
Google: SnB4jgEACAAJ
Amazon: 1410486265
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Goodreads: 25337081
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2016-02-02T06:00:00+00:00

13

Eve checked out Wymann’s second wife, and crossed her off. The woman had married again, and again aimed for the older and the wealthy. She was now sitting pretty in a villa in the south of France.

Still, she poked a little more, and came up with an alibi, as wife number two had been cohosting a winter gala in Cannes at the time of Senator Mira’s abduction. The international style and society pages were full of reports and photos—and fashion critiques.

Reading them made Eve’s brain ache.

Not the wives, she thought, angling to study her board. They’d moved on. But others hadn’t.

She toggled back to Charity Downing. And Downing took her to Lydia Su, who’d attended Yale and, like MacKensie, Inner Peace. Time to talk to Downing’s alibi.

Before she did, there was something she could do from her desk. She contacted Edward Mira’s daughter.

The woman looked pale and drawn, but fully awake. “Lieutenant Dallas.”

“Sorry to disturb you this early.”

“It doesn’t matter. We’re not getting a lot of sleep around here. Have you found my father’s killer?”

“Working on it. If I ask you who are his closest friends—for now stick with his age group—who comes immediately to mind?”

“Oh, well. Jonas Wymann. They go all the way back to Yale.”

“Right. Anyone else?”

“Ah, Frederick Betz. He and my father and Mr. Wymann—and Marshall Easterday—all went to Yale together. They had a group house together. And there’s Senator Fordham. They became good friends when my father was a senator. Is that helpful?”

“Yeah, it is. Mrs. Sykes, the media reports are going to start hitting soon. Jonas Wymann was murdered early this morning, in the same manner as your father.”

“What?” Her eyes went blank. “What? I don’t . . . Why? Why is this happening?”

“I’m working on that, too. Can you think of anyone who would want to cause your father and Wymann harm? Who might link them together?”

“I don’t understand any of this. I’m sorry, I don’t understand this. He—Mr. Wymann—he used to sneak Ned and me little chocolates when we were kids. He’s dead. Murdered. Like my father?”

“I’m sorry. If you or your brother think of anything that connects them, of anyone who might have a grudge against them, let me know.”

“I need to contact Ned. I don’t want him to hear about this on screen. The others, the others you asked about. You think someone might do this to them?”

“It’s something we need to consider. I’ll be speaking with them. If anyone else comes to mind, contact me. Anytime.”

“I will. I’ll ask Ned. Thank you for telling me. I need to . . . I have to go.”

Eve pulled up addresses, started to push away from her desk when her ’link signaled. She might have ignored it, but she saw Baxter on the display.

“Dallas. What’ve you got?”

“A lot of shock from the work contacts we’ve pulled out of bed so far, and a handful of names we pried out. Ladies he’s dated in the last year or so. For an older guy, he gets a lot of touch.

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