Dust To Dust by Tami Hoag

Author:Tami Hoag
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Crime & mystery, Mystery & Detective, Gay police, Minnesota, Minneapolis, General, Suspense, Crime & Thriller, Fiction
ISBN: 9780752843339
Publisher: Orion mass market paperback
Published: 2010-01-14T23:00:00+00:00

meanness. He nu*ght have been sixteen or seventeen, but he was no kid. He stood near a rounder of polar fleece vests, turning it without looking, his flat, cold gaze on Charmiqua Jones.

"I'm very busy here:'she said, and went to unlock a dressing room with a key hanging from a neon-green plastic coil around her wrist. Kovac turned his back to the muscle. "We can offer you protection,

Charruiqua.The county attorney wants Deene Combs behind bars." "Protection:' she snorted. "What? You gonna send me on a bus to some flea-trap motel in Gary, Indiana? Hide me out?" She shook her head as she returned to the table with another pile of clothing. "I'm a decent person, Kovac. I work two jobs. I'm raising three good kids. I want to live to see them through school, thank you very much. Wyan Nixon can look out for his own black ass. I'm looking out for mine."

"If he wants to be a hard-ass, the county attorney can charge you as accessory after the fact," Liska said, fishing. "Obstruction ofjustice, failure to cooperate . .."

Jones held her hands out in front of her, darting a glance at Condom Cap. "Then you put the cuffs on me and take me away. I got nothing to say about Wyan Nixon or Deene Combs. I didn't see nothing."

Kovac shook his head. "Not today. See you around, Chamiqua." "I hope not."

"Nobody loves me today," Kovac complained.

Liska pulled out a business card and put it down on the stack of folded jeans. "Call if you change your mind."

Jones tore the card in two as they walked away.

"Who can blame her?" Kovac said under his breath, giving the skunk eye to Condom Cap as they passed.

"She's looking out for her kids:'Liska said. "I'd do the same. It's not like she could take Deene Combs off the street, anyway.You know he didn't do Nixon himself She could give up some piece of meat like that guy watching her and still get herself killed for her trouble, and for what? There's a thousand more where he came from."

"Yeah. Let it go. One scumbag beats the shit out of another scumbag.That's one less scumbag on the street for a whileWho cares? Nobody cares."

"Somebody has to care:'Liska corrected him. "We have to care." Kovac looked at her. "Because we're all that's standing between society and anarchy?"

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Liska made a face. "Please. Because our clearance rates count bigtime toward promotion. Screw society. I have kids to put through college."

Kovac laughed. "Tinks, you never fail to put things in their proper perspective."

"Someone has to keep you from getting morose." "I'm never morose."

"You're always morose."

11Fm not morose, I'm bitter," he corrected her as they passed the Rainforest Cafe, where sounds of thunder and rain were playing over the speaker system, and one of the live parrots on display was screaming like a banshee. People lined up for that.

"There's a difference," he said. "Morose is passive. Bitter is active. Being bitter is like having a hobby."

"Everyone needs a hobby," Liska agreed.

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