Delusions With Murder: A Rilynne Evans Mystery by Jenn Vakey

Author:Jenn Vakey [Vakey, Jenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9781478193265
Google: B_qGMAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1478193263
Barnesnoble: 1478193263
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-07-04T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The phones were already ringing off the hook when Rilynne walked into the station the next morning. Judging by the look on the officers’ faces, there hadn’t been anything promising. She even heard two officers talking about a man refusing arrest when they pulled him over for driving intoxicated, because he thought the officer was trying to lure him to his police car to abduct him. While she did find it slightly amusing, she knew this would only be the beginning.

There was a stack of call reports waiting for her on her desk when she sat down. Because of the high call volume, the police department was forced to concentrate their attention to the calls that required immediate assistance. The remaining reports were being logged and given to the detective squad to look into.

Luckily, most of the reports were easy to rule as false alarms. An eighty-six year old man reported one such case when a teenage boy offered to help him cross the street. He apparently yelled, ‘You will not take me, devil spawn,’ before running as fast as his legs would carry him.

“Evans, Matthews,” Detective Wilcome called out just before nine. “The bomb squad cleared the cabin, so the scene is ours. The crime scene technicians are meeting us there.”

The cabin was almost completely destroyed. The back wall, which had been made of stone instead of wood, was the only one still standing. Because the cabin had been so deep in the woods, it had been nearly impossible for the fire department to do anything other than keep the fire from spreading.

“Begin with the house. I want everything that looks like it could have any connection to the case collected and taken back to the lab. Then I want the woods searched,” Wilcome said. “Look for sheds, caves, or hidden bunkers. Let’s get started.”

The majority of the floor had collapsed, leaving the basement full of burnt debris. It was not hard to find where the hidden room was, though. “Good call on the basement,” Matthews told her as he stared at the burnt bed in the corner.

“What’s that under the bed?” she asked.

“Where? I don’t see anything,” he responded.

She hadn’t either, but she knew it must still be there. “I don’t know, I just thought I saw something.”

Matthews leaned down and started pulling the burnt boards away from the bed. “Give me a hand with this,” he called to a tech as he handed them off. “I think you’re right. I see something… got it.”

He stood back up holding the charred bedpan. “This looks like blood here on the edge. We’ll have it tested,” he said as the tech held out an evidence bag. “There’s a good chance it belongs to one of the victims, though.”

They found the cause of the fire in what was left of the kitchen upstairs. “It is some kind of rudimentary device that caused an explosion just big enough to spark the gasoline that was spread around the house. The generator was

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