Electing to Murder by Stelljes Roger

Author:Stelljes, Roger [Stelljes, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, thriller, Crime
Amazon: B00BNVVP2W
Goodreads: 18857827
Published: 2013-03-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

“I want justice.”

As Mac looked out the plane’s window, he thought about the fact he’d never worked a case like this with the ramifications that it potentially had. The investigation had a tremendous momentum all its own and it wasn’t ready to stop any time soon. It was like pulling at a loose thread. If you pulled one out, three more appeared ready to be pulled until the whole shirt fell apart. The case had so many potential permutations; it was hard to know which one to follow.

The McCormick and Montgomery murders were largely closed. A double murder solved in less than twelve hours plus possibly another one from two days ago. He had the killer at Lupo’s office. There were two impeccable witnesses to identify him. If the man survived his wounds, he was going away for life. That they didn’t know who the man was wasn’t an issue, they’d get his identity eventually. If someone showed to pick him up, so much the better and easier.

The question nagging him, and Wire, not to mention the chief and the Judge, who had now made common cause, was who hired the killer? Someone let the dog out to hunt. Who?

Judge Dixon was emphatic it wasn’t the vice president. Mac thought back to something he learned long ago from his father and that was that politicians always leave themselves a way out. If the night’s events were being orchestrated by Vice President Wellesley, he wasn’t leaving himself a way out. Mac wasn’t going to vote for Wellesley, but from what he’d seen and read on the vice president through the years, he thought him to be a pretty decent and smart man.

In Mac’s mind, Dixon was right. This wasn’t the vice president’s play. It may have been the play of a smart man, but not a decent one.

At this point, that left Connolly, and perhaps Checketts and the other two men at the Kentucky meeting.

Were they the ones behind all this?

Mac and Wire’s operating theory said they were. They were at the Kentucky meeting and everything seemed to start there. That’s when the bodies started dropping. The two men had some hard questions that needed answering. Sometime, and sometime very soon, Connolly was going to be confronted. In Mac’s mind, that’s what should be happening right now, Connolly was the bigger fish. But Judge Dixon put on his old prosecutor hat. “Mac, it’s time to start building a case. When you’re building a case, you start with the smaller fish and get them in line for when you go after the big one. Connolly is the big fish. Checketts is a smaller fish and I’m betting the more frail fish. We go after him first.”

We? How did Dixon become part of we? How did Mac become part of we?

Mac was starting to wonder who he was working for, the city of St. Paul or had he unwittingly been loaned by his boss to Dixon. His gut told him the latter

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