Cold Jade by Dan Ames

Author:Dan Ames [Ames, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Hard-Boiled, Police Procedurals
Amazon: B0165J4398
Goodreads: 26216543
Publisher: Slogan Books
Published: 2015-10-02T11:00:00+00:00

23

The first thing I did when I left the Joe Dumars Fieldhouse was to send Nate a text and ask him if he had ever heard of an escort service called Platinum Escorts.

When I swung into the village, I hit Starbucks and got myself a tall dark roast with some half and half and sugar. Anna wasn’t around, because half and half and sugar in coffee were both against the house rules. We used fat free creamer and that was it. No added sugar.

But when the wife is away, even the most docile husband will play.

Back in my office armed with some delicious caffeine, I scoured the Internet for Platinum Escorts. And not their lame-ass website full of shots of girls. Because there was nothing at all on the website other than those images and an email address that I’m sure was not going to be easy to track down.

When I searched from a business address perspective, there were a ton of them, and that was the problem. There was Platinum Escorts, Las Vegas. Platinum Escorts, New York. Los Angeles. Dallas. Miami.

That’s a lot of platinum.

Nothing in Detroit, though.

It was a safe guess that these kinds of companies had a million different names for themselves. After all, most of the photos used for one “service” were the same photos for another one. Once they had enough photos, they probably just plastered them all over the Internet with different email addresses or phone numbers that most likely led to the same answering service or whatever scam system they used.

Despite what most people think, looking at photos of scantily clad women, especially young scantily clad women, can get tiresome. Especially when you consider the widespread practice of human trafficking, of which there was quite a bit in the Midwest, and Detroit in particular.

It felt great to close the browser and step away from the computer.

There hadn’t been much hope that I would be able to get an address or a name from the Web. These kinds of companies were evading law enforcement. But I hadn’t even found anything about Platinum Escorts in any other location. Like police reports. Or news stories.

The fact was, you could only do so much research online. The world was still a place inhabited by people made of flesh and blood, not constructed of electronic pulses and pixels.

So I decided to change gears.

I gambled that Nate might be able to point to someone who could help with the Platinum Escort angle.

That meant I could focus on the auto convention Derek had told me about, when he said that Jade was hoping for a big score so she could get out of the business.

So what auto convention? And where? And who would Kierra have been there with?

The good news was that you couldn’t live in Detroit without knowing a lot of people in the auto industry. And I mean a lot. The people who weren’t actually in the industry itself, in other words, working directly for Ford, GM or Chrysler, were usually working at industries that supported the auto manufacturers.

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