Fatal Judgment by Irene Hannon

Author:Irene Hannon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-26T06:26:50+00:00

As the sun peeked over the horizon on Saturday, Martin lifted his coffee from the cup holder next to the driver’s seat and took a sip, inspecting the apartment building in the Central West End where Neil Clark lived. It was amazing how much you could find out by simply hanging around. Waiting. Watching. That was how he’d gathered the information he’d needed to devise his first plan to rid the world of Judge Elizabeth Michaels.

Even though it hadn’t succeeded, the plan had been good. The outcome wasn’t due to faulty thinking or planning. He was always thorough and meticulous. That was why he’d excelled at his job. Why his bosses had put him on the space shuttle assembly work. And the Apache helicopter project. And the Harrier contract. They knew they could count on Martin Reynolds to get the job done right.

Just as he intended to get this job done right.

The front door of the apartment opened and Neil emerged, his rollerblades already on. The kid looked like he was about fifteen, with that shock of hair falling into his face and his gangly adolescent build. And he was as predictable as the bells that tolled each hour at the church on the corner of Martin’s street. Every Saturday morning at 7:00, Neil went rollerblading. Then he headed to the courthouse for a few hours, always dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, lugging a bulky satchel.

Watching the kid take off down the street toward Forest Park, Martin eased his car away from the curb and followed him. When he was first formulating his plan, he’d thought there might be a way to use Neil to gain access to the judge. After seeing the two of them come out of the courthouse together, he’d trailed them on foot when they’d walked down the street to a crowded sandwich shop. The lunch rush had made it easy to get close enough to eavesdrop without being noticed. From their conversation, he’d figured out the kid worked for her as a clerk.

But he hadn’t ended up needing Neil. It had been easy to follow the judge home, and easier still to do a little reconnaissance in her secluded backyard. One visit had told him the basement window would provide easy access to the house under the cover of darkness. And one look through the laundry room window had given him a good view of the keypad for her home security system. It was a standard variety. The kind you turned on at night and when you left the house. He’d dealt with enough sophisticated security systems at his old job, with all the classified stuff going on there, to recognize a basic model.

He’d also spent a couple of weeks sitting outside her house, studying her habits. What time she left in the morning, what time she returned, when she tended to run errands, who she talked to. She seemed especially chummy with her neighbors across the street—Delores and Harold Moretti.

No, there had been nothing wrong with his plan.

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