Diamonds and Blood (Chameleon Assassin Book 5) by BR Kingsolver

Author:BR Kingsolver [Kingsolver, BR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

The call from Victor came around noon the following day.

“Smith is awake, and the doctors say we can talk to him.”

“I’ll be there in forty-five minutes,” I said, hauling my butt out of a comfortable chair and heading for the shower.

Victor met me in the hospital lobby and filled me in on our way up the elevator.

“Theodore Smith, aka Teddy, walked into the emergency room last night with a gunshot wound high in his right back. The hospital called the police, and since Director Wilberforce had placed him on a watch list, the police called us. We haven’t talked to him yet.”

“Good. He’s at the top of our list for Joseph Morgan’s homicide,” I said. “He was an old friend of Morgan’s and he didn’t have an alibi when we questioned him before. With all the murders since then, I want to approach him from a different angle.”

Victor nodded. “The director told me to let you take the lead.”

The surgeon greeted us outside Smith’s room.

“Shot once in the upper right back. The bullet clipped the scapula and broke the right clavicle. The patient lost a significant amount of blood before walking into the emergency room under his own power.”

“What caliber bullet?” I asked.

“Thirty-two caliber.”

“There weren’t any powder burns on the victim’s clothes,” Victor said.

“Pau Ricard and Eileen Desroches were killed with a thirty-two,” I said.

“We’re ahead of you,” Victor said. “Ballistics says this bullet came from the same gun.”

“So, the shooter was behind him, and at least three feet away,” I said.

Victor nodded.

He followed me into Smith’s room and leaned against the wall near the door, tacitly handing me the lead. Smith lay in the bed with an IV feeding whole blood into his arm. He looked pretty alert for someone who had been shot and then cut on very recently. But vampires were tough, and all that whole blood they were feeding him was probably his best meal in years. When Wil and I questioned him at the casino, he hadn’t seen me in my own persona, so I introduced myself and showed him my Chamber identification.

“Who shot you?” I started.

“Dunno. Never saw him.”

“Sure it wasn’t a woman? You haven’t pissed any girlfriends off recently?”

He chuckled. “I should be so lucky.”

“Do you think you were shot because of what happened to Joseph Morgan?”

Smith took a deep breath. “I don’t know how. I don’t know who killed Joe, or why they killed him.”

“Tell me about your relationship with Pau Ricard and Eileen Desroches,” I said.

He started to shrug and winced. “I know them. Knew them. Pau was a friend of Joe Morgan’s. And everyone knew Eileen. Joe used to pay her to come to his parties, then he passed her around like a party favorite. Why do you want to know about them?”

“What do you know about Alysia Capozzi?”

“Nothing. Don’t want anything to do with the Capozzis.”

“Oh, come now, Teddy. You know everyone, and who you don’t know, you hear the gossip. Tell me about Alysia. I know she was friends with the Desroches girls.

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