Dark Tide by J.S. Cook
Author:J.S. Cook [Cook, J.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery/suspense
ISBN: 978-1-64108-272-3
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2021-11-30T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Fifteen
Thursday, June 25, 2:00 p.m.
BY TWO that afternoon, the Heffernan residence had been cordoned off and the entire area surrounding the house sealed with a perimeter of yellow police tape.
âSir?â Kevin Carbage appeared at his elbow. âIâve questioned Mr. Heffernan. He claims to know nothing about it.â
Danny turned to look at him. âOf course he does.â
âAnd heâs asked for a lawyer.â
âMm.â This wasnât surprising. âShe was dumped in face down.â He gestured at the confines of the hole. âAnd dirt and rocks shoveled in on top of her. Nothing ritualistic about it, nothing organised.â The body had since been removed to a white tent just behind them, where Bobbi Lambert and Regan Lampe were poring over it. Danny had phoned Regan himself and was surprised when she offered to do a preliminary of the body in situ.
âMaybe someone was getting rid of an inconvenience,â Kevin offered.
âThat was my thought as well.â Danny stepped away from the hole. âHas Dr. Lampe found a cause of death yet?â
âThatâs also what I came to tell you. Sheâd like to see you.â
âGood. Take Dougie Hughes and arrest David Heffernan,â Danny instructed. âHe can have his lawyer as soon as we get him to the station. Donât let that bugger out of your sight.â
âHughes isnât on duty today,â Kevin told him. âMarilyn said you told him to take a few sick days.â
âOh, thatâs right.â He glanced around. âWhereâs Riley?â
âGone back to the station with two of the forensics techs, making sure the evidence follows procedure for chain of custody,â Kevin said.
âWell, take one of the others.â
âWill do.â
Regan and Bobbi were on opposite sides of the corpse when Danny shouldered his way into the tent. The womanâs body had been laid on a tarp, and Bobbi was busy taking photographs while Regan examined the face, hands, and feet. She glanced up when she saw Danny. âSheâs been dead about a week,â she said. âRigor has come and gone. As you know, she was buried face down, and the queer thing is, he put a big, flat rock on her back. I kept it for you. Itâs over there.â
Danny went to a corner of the tent, where a flat stone the size of a serving tray had been laid on the ground. He crouched down to look at it, his knees protesting painfully. It was roughly sixty centimeters long, forty-six centimeters wide, and six centimeters thick, local slate. It had to weigh about a hundred kilos, give or take. âDid you get anything off this?â
âIâve swabbed it for DNA,â Bobbi said. âWe might only get hers. Depends if he was wearing gloves or notââ
âLook at this,â Regan said, cutting her off. She had opened the womanâs mouth and was now extracting something from it with a long pair of tweezers. It looked like a tangled mass of roots or string. Danny moved closer, curious. âThis ties in with the dirt we found on her face and in her hair,â she said. At Dannyâs inquisitive look, she added, âTree roots and a quantity of soil.
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