Faith Bold Mystery 21-So Savage by Pierce Blake

Author:Pierce, Blake [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, American Suspense, Police Procedural, Crime Thriller, Murder Investigation, FBI, K9
Published: 2025-05-15T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Faith sighed and leaned forward, rubbing her temples with her hands. Turk slept next to her, and she felt a touch of jealousy. Dogs, in many ways, had the easiest lives. Turk could essentially sleep anytime he wasn’t actively using his nose to hunt for clues. Meanwhile, Faith was on the back end of another all-nighter, once more greeting the sun with zero hours of sleep and a groggy mind only barely kept alert enough to function by copious amounts of caffeine.

I’ll probably die of a heart attack before I reach fifty.

She sipped more coffee anyway. She needed to find a missing woman, or if nothing else, find the person killing K9 handlers and make sure he couldn’t kill anyone else.

She wondered why the killer hadn’t finished Delgado off the way he had the others. That supported the hypothesis that there was more than one killer. It was possible this one liked to beat people instead of use knives.

Or maybe it was possible that the killer hadn’t been successful at keeping the element of surprise. If Delgado had seen him coming, and if she was a boxing champion, then it was likely she had put up more resistance than the others. It might even be the killer’s blood they had seen and not hers. Wayne had heard a male shouting, not a female. Maybe he’d heard the aftermath of one of Delgado’s blows finding its mark.

Faith hoped so. If Delgado was dead, it probably didn’t make a difference if she’d gotten a shot in or not, but it would make Faith feel better to think that she’d gotten her licks in before she’d lost her life.

She stiffened as she realized they’d missed an opportunity. She quickly dialed Marcus.

“Hey, Faith,” the detective replied, sounding as weary as she felt. “No sign of Delgado yet. We’re looking still, but wherever the killer took her, he did a good job of hiding it. Other than the scene of the scuffle, there doesn’t seem to be any sign of either of them.”

“Have the MPs search the exercise field,” she replied. “Tell them to look for darts. I think the killer wasn’t able to sedate Delgado right away. I think she might have tried to defend herself, and the noise of that encounter was what alerted Wayne to the danger.”

“Oh shit,” Marcus said. “You’re right. I’ll have them look right now. We might be able to get fingerprints off of the darts. I’ll see if we can get DNA from the blood in the snow too.”

“See if you can also find out who manufactured the darts,” Faith said.

“Right. I’ll start that right away. You’re a genius, Faith.”

Faith smiled when Marcus hung up. It was encouraging to hear such praise, especially since Faith didn’t feel like she was doing a very good job at the moment. That could just be her exhaustion talking. It was getting harder to pull these irregular hours the older she got.

“Well, back to work, Special Agent.”

Turk raised one ear, but when Faith reached down and scratched behind it, he lowered the ear and returned to sleep.

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