Fear the Dark by Mooney Chris

Author:Mooney, Chris [Mooney, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense, Ebook Club, Top 100 Chart, Thriller, Fiction
ISBN: 9780718197926
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2015-01-28T22:00:00+00:00

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Darby finished the interview in less than an hour. The cameraman had stopped recording after each question to give her time to confer with Hoder. They did multiple takes and the cameraman shot from multiple angles, pausing each time to fiddle with the lighting. Coop watched from a corner.

The video footage would be compressed into ten minutes. The statement she’d made at the start of the interview; the reporter’s questions about her background and experience hunting serial killers like Traveler, who had successfully evaded law enforcement; and her summary of the Red Hill Ripper case – those items would run at the start of the interview and hopefully catch the killer’s interest.

In order for the trace to work, the Ripper needed to watch the video for at least two minutes. During that time, the program embedded in the video would determine the operating system – Windows, Mac, Android or iOS – install the appropriate software and then broadcast its location back to the RCFL guys in Denver. They assured Hoder the program wouldn’t be detected by antivirus or malware-prevention software.

To entice the Ripper to keep watching, Hoder had provided ‘exclusive’ and ‘never before revealed crime scene photos’ – close-up pictures of the plastic cuffs and ligature marks. Hoder believed the Ripper wouldn’t be able to resist wanting to see his handiwork on display. The photos would be spliced into the video somewhere after the two-minute mark – more than enough time for the tracking program to install itself. Anyone watching the video from Red Hill, Brewster and the surrounding towns would be moved to the top of the search list. All information would then be forwarded to Hoder, who would analyse it, along with Otto and Hayes, inside the MoFo.

While the cameraman edited the video footage under Hoder’s watchful eye, Darby left the squad room to speak to the police chief. Neither Robinson nor Williams had entered the room at any point during the interview.

Robinson’s office was dark, the door locked. She moved around the corner and saw the light on in Williams’s office, but he wasn’t there. She searched the station for him, and when she didn’t find him she used his office phone to call his cell. It went straight to voicemail. Then she remembered he’d left his cell in his trunk.

Darby left the office, a nagging feeling worming its way through her stomach. If the Red Hill Ripper were skilful enough with computers to use malware that automatically installed itself on their cell phones, would he also have installed safeguards while using the internet?

A patrolman she recognized from this morning’s debrief stepped into the lobby with a tall and slender woman dressed in tight-fitting designer jeans, over-the-knee black leather high-heel boots and a dark fur coat that ended at her waist. It had an oversized shawl collar and an open front; she wore a cream-coloured and Henley-inspired blouse with a split-neck and a deep V that proudly displayed an ample amount of surgically enhanced cleavage.

‘Ray in his office?’ the patrolman asked Darby.

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