Dropped Dead by Gregory Payette

Author:Gregory Payette
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: private investigator mystery, murder mystery, private investigator thriller, murder mystery series, Florida, suspense
Publisher: 8 Flags Publishing, Inc
Published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

I PULLED THE JEEP OVER to the side of the road and dialed the number Vanessa Hoover had given me.

LJ answered on the first ring. “L. J. Hoover.”

“LJ? This is Henry Walsh. I have a feeling you already know who I am.”

The line went quiet, other than the background noise coming through the phone.

“You there?” I said.

“Yes? Can I help you with something?”

“You can answer my question,” I said. “Do you know who I am?”

“I might.”

“You might, huh?” I waited a moment but didn’t see the conversation going anywhere without a little more help. “Let’s just say I have something you may be looking for.”

“I’m sorry? Can you just tell me what this call is about? I’m a busy man. I don’t have much—”

“How about you meet me, and I’ll explain,” I said.

“I just told you, I don’t have much time. I don’t know what kind of game you're playing... Mr. Walsh, is it?”

“Well, I think it would be in your best interest to make some time. How about in an hour we meet at Friendship Fountain?”

LJ was quiet for a moment. “It’ll have to be another time. I can meet later, in a few hours.”

“I know you were at the hotel the morning before Ted’s tragic death. And I know you were there with Olivia.”

“How did you—”

“I’ll tell you more in an hour. See you then.”

I hung up with LJ and immediately dialed the phone for Memorial Hospital. I was hoping for a good update, and the nurse I spoke with told me she was doing better. “She’s strong,” she said.

“I know she is,” I said, and hung up the phone. I pulled out of the parking space and my eyes started to tear. Lacking sleep and any semblance of food in my body, my emotions were too far out of whack.

I stopped off at Baker’s Dozen for a coffee and a bagel sandwich, hoping it would at least be enough to get me through a meeting with LJ without losing my mind and doing something I’d later regret.

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