Deep into the Dark by P. J. Tracy

Author:P. J. Tracy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

Chapter Thirty-eight

NOLAN RAPPED HARDER ON THE DOOR of Yukiko Easton’s Marina del Rey rental. It was a gorgeous little bungalow a few blocks from the water and fueled her latent misgivings about her own choice of rental. But a property like this would be far more expensive, so every year she lived in the Valley, she would be putting money in the bank that would eventually accrue into a down payment for a house of her own. With LA’s exorbitant real estate prices, she might be able to afford one the year she retired.

“Ms. Easton? LAPD, please open up.”

Crawford sucked in his cheeks and maneuvered his tongue around his mouth. She tried hard to chase away the image of him coaxing shreds of his breakfast bacon out of his molars. “She’s not home, Mags.”

“And she’s not at work, and not answering her phone.”

“Not everybody is connected to their phone with an umbilical cord. We’ll come back later.”

Nolan crossed the porch and looked through the front window, hoping for a glimpse between the slats of the wooden shade. It was closed tight. “I’m going around the side.”

Crawford followed her along a rock path choked with a tangled mat of flowering groundcover. “If something doesn’t feel right, you kick down the door. I love kicking down doors, just give me a reason.”

“There’s no sign that anybody is in imminent danger. I’m just being thorough, so keep your inner stud on a leash.”

“After twenty years of marriage, I’m not sure I have an inner stud.”

“Keep that information on a leash, too.”

Nolan finally found a window with a half-opened blind that looked into a bedroom and saw a reason for Crawford to kick down the door. But he didn’t have to—it was unlocked.

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