Burnside's Killer: An Interlude Novella between Parts 1 & 2 (The Hunter Legacy Book 6) by Ellis Timothy

Author:Ellis, Timothy [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Timothy Ellis
Published: 2015-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

"Odd," said Janet abruptly.

"What?" I asked.

"The scanner at the airlock didn't record any form of weapon on her as she entered the station."

"You can detect that?"

"Oh yes. It’s a refinement of a ship freight scanner Jon was testing for Australian militia before he was caught up in the Midgard war. When he took possession of this station, we had them added all around it, so we could keep tabs on what was being brought here. The internal ones are simply an adaption, scaled down so we can detect what is under clothing, and within shipping containers and packaging. With the enemies Jon has, we don’t want anyone smuggling explosives on board. Nor do we want dark side merc units hitting us on our own station. At least not without sufficient warning to set up our own ambush before they can set up theirs."

"I can see that. So big brother is definitely watching everything here?"

"Big sister actually," said Jane with a laugh.

Janet joined in with a giggle, and I looked at them both, wondering what the joke was I was missing.

I thought about Ingrid without a weapon. It didn’t make sense. The MO of my serial killer required a blade of some kind, and a very sharp one. I went back over my records looking for any evidence of a blade being procured at the murder scene rather than brought in. But there wasn’t any. All knives at all locations were accounted for, and a number of the crime scenes had no access to any form of knife.

"Does this mean we have the wrong suspect?"

The girls became serious again very quickly. They looked at each other for a long moment.

"Unlikely at this point," said Jane. "Her behavior since arrival is enough to justify our belief that she is the assassin. Just because we cannot detect a blade, doesn’t mean she hasn’t one on her, or will procure one at some point before making the assassination attempt."

"Would you say we have probable cause, Dick?" asked Janet.

"Yes. We have documented hacking coming from her ship, and what I’d call a preliminary stalking profile established."

"We should proceed as we intended then," said Jane.

"Are you monitoring all traffic inwards, or just that one airlock?"

"Everywhere," said Janet. "There are about a hundred weapons walking around on the station at the moment. We're monitoring every one of those people. A lot of them are residents, a holdover from when Pompeii ran this place. From what people have said, it wasn’t a very safe place to live back then, although it was much better than on the planet during the civil war."

"Civil war?"

"It wasn’t widely advertised," said Jane. "Pompeii broke away from the American sector, and went back to slavery as a way of life. The civil war was a quick one, ending when Jon and General Smith's team arrived there, and tipped the balance away from the government forces. As far as we know, mainstream media never heard about it. The Midgard war began a week later, and rapidly became a major threat to sectors.

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