Deadly Intent by Pamela Clare

Author:Pamela Clare [Clare, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998749150
Published: 2018-02-18T18:00:00+00:00

Joaquin wanted to hear this, too. “This time, you answer our questions first.”

Wu didn’t look happy. “The suspect used Jason Garcia’s credit card to pay for an online search for your address, Mr. Ramirez. We got a pop on the card and were following up on that when your call came in, Ms. Starr. Somehow, he knew you were staying with Mr. Ramirez, and he tracked down Mr. Ramirez’s address using a public records website.”

“How could he know I was staying there? Maybe there’s another leak in the police department.”

Wu cleared his throat, clearly uncomfortable with Mia’s allegation. “My best guess is that he followed you, saw the two of you together, and looked up Mr. Ramirez’s license plate. Maybe he saw you when you picked her up at the nightclub.”

“But you don’t know for certain.” Joaquin wasn’t impressed.

“No, I don’t.”

“Mia was almost killed tonight. If you’d warned us sooner, this wouldn’t have happened.”

“It takes time to access credit card records, even for police detectives. We’re doing everything—”

“I don’t believe that.” Joaquin was too shaken to hold back. “Mia is alive right now, no thanks to DPD. She could have been his third victim.”

“Fourth,” Wu said.

Mia’s face went white. “What?”

“Fourth?” Joaquin asked.

“I spent most of the afternoon in Colorado Springs. Whoever this guy is, he shot and killed Brigadier General Stephen Frank. He caught him outside a pay-by-the-hour hotel and shot him in the head. No witnesses, no cameras. There was no wallet with the body, so we can only assume the killer took it, as he did with both Meyer and Garcia. I saw the report and recognized the general’s name from the information you gave us. This time, the killer wrote your name on the wall in the victim’s blood.”

“He killed Frank, too? My name … in blood?” Mia seemed to have trouble absorbing all of this. “Is he still trying to frame me?”

Joaquin held her hand tighter.

“Perhaps,” Wu said. “Or maybe it was a warning that he was coming for you.”

That was a comforting thought.

“Where were you last night between the hours of eight and ten?” Wu asked.

“Give me a break, man. She was at my place with me.” Javier ran his thumb over her knuckles, checked in with her. “How are you doing, Mia?”

She gave a little shake of her head. “I don’t even know.”

Wu repeated his question as if Joaquin hadn’t answered it already. “Where were you last night?”

“I thought you said I wasn’t a suspect.”

“It’s just a routine question.”

“I was at Joaquin’s house. I didn’t leave until this morning.”

“What do you make of the fact that Brigadier General Frank is dead now?”

“I don’t know. Frank is the one who let them get away with looting at first. He helped bury my report. He got a promotion for it, too. He was involved in the initial investigation about the mustard gas and some of the men’s discharges, so I suppose someone might hold that against him.”

“Do he and Powell get along?”

“They did, most of the time until … Wait.

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