Cooked Goose by McKevett G.A

Author:McKevett, G.A.
Language: deu
Format: epub
Published: 2013-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

2:35 P.M.

Savannah had left the scene to collect Margie’s “stuff” from her house—using the girl’s key rather than pick a police captain’s lock—and deliver it to the perturbed and bored teenager. By the time she returned to Titus Dunn’s cottage in Two Trees, the property had been converted into a miniature city, inhabited by Dr. Jennifer Liu, the county coroner, and her crew of crime technicians.

Savannah stepped over the yellow tape that was cordoning off the area, and walked up to the first technician she recognized, Eileen Brady. Eileen was on her hands and knees, collecting one of the blood drops from the driveway with a cotton swab. “Hi, Eileen,” she said, trying to blend in and not make it too obvious that she was an average citizen, an authorized person, blithely invading a crime scene. “Is Dirk still around?”

“He left a few minutes ago to get a bite to eat.” Eileen laughed and shook her head. “Seems nothing ruins that guy’s appetite-

“How true. I’ve seen him help fish a two-week-old decomposing corpse out of a lake and, half an hour later, eat a quarter-pounder with cheese. Go figure. I see the meat wagon; where’s Dr. Liu?”

Eileen pointed with her bloody swab. “Inside the house.”

“Thanks.”

Savannah strolled on into the house, keeping an eye peeled for Bloss or any other members of the S.C.P.D. brass who hated her.

There were several.

She hated them right back.

Not seeing anyone on her mental hit list, she ventured inside the house, where she saw a beautiful, petite, and ultra-feminine Asian woman, who looked the exact opposite of the funereal coroner stereotype.

Dr. Jennifer Liu brushed her long, glossy, black hair away from her face with one gloved hand as she rose from where she had been kneeling on the floor. “Hey, Savannah! How nice to see you. Did you bring me some Godiva chocolates?”

“Sorry, Dr. Jen, I didn’t know it was that time of month. PMS again?”

“It’s always that time of the month. You should know that.”

Long ago, Savannah and Dr. Liu had discovered they were soul sisters, and the common bond between them was a love of chocolate. Usually, when Savannah visited the doctor’s autopsy suite, she was looking for answers, and from the beginning, Dr. Liu had established the price of her bribe—a Snickers bar if it was a mundane inquiry, Godiva if it was something heavy.

“So,” Savannah said, watching Dr. Liu move from one ruined object in the room to the next, making notes and sketches on a yellow legal pad, “how’s it going?”

“Slow. Methodical. Careful.” Jennifer looked sad. “Especially when it’s one of our own.”

On the other side of the room, Savannah could see Cindy Oleksiak, who was also collecting blood samples. Savannah recognized the process as a quick and effective method of typing the specimens.

“Is all of this Titus’s blood?” she asked Dr. Liu.

“We’ve tested samples from in here, the bedroom, and the bathroom,” she said. “They’re all the same type: A Negative.“

“His type?”

Dr. Liu nodded. “Afraid so. It’s a fairly uncommon type.

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