Defender (The Witches of Cleopatra Hill Book 11) by Christine Pope

Author:Christine Pope [Pope, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Published: 2017-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

11

Jack could feel his phone buzz in his pocket, but he ignored it because right then he was getting an ass-chewing from his supervisor.

“You let them go?” Larry asked, his normally ruddy complexion redder than ever at the moment because of his irritation.

“They all had alibis, Larry,” Jack replied. Even Bret Harkins, who was probably guilty of a lot of things, but not, unfortunately, Jeff Nichols’ murder. “You think I don’t want to get this thing buttoned up as soon as I can? I get why you had them brought in for a closer look, but none of them were our guy.”

“You sure spent a lot of time talking to Harkins, though.”

“Because I thought he might have some information. No,” Jack went on quickly, when it looked as if Larry intended to interject some kind of comment, “not because he actually committed the crime — Harkins is no saint, but I don’t think he’s capable of the kind of violence we saw in Nichols’ murder — but because he said a few things that made my spider sense tingle. Unfortunately, it was all a dead end. I’m pretty sure our murderer is someone who’s not on the radar at all, someone without a record.”

“Great,” Larry groused. “Because right now we have shit-all when it comes to leads. The killer didn’t leave behind a single shred of physical evidence, so we have nothing to go on from that angle. No witnesses. No nothing.”

All Jack could do was give a sympathy shrug, because Larry only spoke the truth. Of course, Jack did have slightly more to work with, just because he had the whole warlock angle to explore, but he couldn’t mention that to his boss. He walked a fine line here and he knew it, but at the end of the day, his loyalty was to his clan and to the witching world as a whole, not the Scottsdale police department. Most of the time, those loyalties weren’t in conflict. This time…well, his path was clear enough when it came to either obliging his supervisor or making sure nothing about the de la Paz clan or any other witches or warlocks ever saw the light of day.

“Something will turn up,” he said, trying to sound as reassuring as possible. “It’s early days yet. You know how sometimes these things break wide open, seemingly out of nowhere.”

“Sometimes,” Larry said. “On the other hand, sometimes they just add to the cold case files that keep stacking up. Anyway, what’s the word on the widow? You think you need to talk to her again?”

“I doubt it,” Jack replied. One thing he had to do was make sure that Kate was absolutely cleared of any suspicion. Some might have wanted to make her the bad guy, just because that was the easiest route, but he would not allow that to happen. No matter what. “She had nothing to do with any of it. Just bad luck that she went by that particular day to drop off her divorce papers.

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