City of Death by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2022-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Frank was glad to see Ava cracking jokes as they left Katz’s Diner. For just a moment, he thought he’d seen a flicker of anger in her eyes when he’d mentioned Clarence’s killer. He figured one of these days, he’d learn that lesson. No matter how long they were together, she would never be okay with him mentioning Clarence’s murder. He understood it, so he wasn’t sure why he couldn’t just keep it out of his mouth.

Also, her humor made him think that her obsessive nature might take a back seat today. He knew that such a trait could often help a detective but he’d also seen it cause detectives to lose track of the case—to focus so intensely on one certain aspect that other important facets went overlooked.

As he and Ava rode back out to the Candle’s Wick, Frank started trying to unpack the case as he saw it. He was fine trying to start all over from the very beginning. After all, there was no new evidence to convict or free Carter Epps so it was easy to view it as if they were starting over. The scary thing was, though, that the scant evidence that had placed Carter into a holding cell in the first place would absolutely be seen as enough to convict him of murder. And the longer he worked with Ava, the easier it was for him to understand how wrong that was. If the races were reverse and Carter Epps was a white man who had been found on the scene with no real evidence to convict him of having killed a black man, he likely wouldn’t even have been arrested at all. No, in a case like Carter’s the notion of innocent until proven guilty just didn’t exist.

This lack of justice made Frank just as determined as Ava to find some way to free Carter, and to find Monty Lincoln’s real killer. He knew how the law worked (or, rather, how it didn’t work) and that an innocent man’s future and livelihood rested in their hands.

Frank was fully prepared to arrive at the club only to find that no one was there. After all, most clubs weren’t open at 9:10 in the morning. But when they parked in front of the Candle’s Wick, he saw that the front door was cracked open. Tony stood just inside the door, sweeping his floor. When he saw the car with two detectives inside—detectives he was likely tired of seeing—he did his best not to look annoyed. But Frank saw it, all the same. It was in the furrow of his brow and the slight downtick along the left side of his lips.

Before stepping out of the car, Ava reached over and took Frank’s hand. “You lead the questioning this time around, okay? I’m going to try something, and I need you to cover for me.”

“What am I covering?”

“I don’t know just yet. It’s an idea that just came to me and I don’t even know if it’s going to work or not.

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