Flesh And Blood by Jonathan Kellerman

Author:Jonathan Kellerman [Kellerman, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller

At nine A.M. Milo rolled onto my property. I had my keys out and headed toward the Seville.

“No,” he said, slapping the driver’s door of the unmarked, “we’ll take the Ferrari. I want this to look official. Hence the tie – excellent choice, by the way. Nice power stripes – Italian?”

I checked the label. “So it says.” I regarded the blue polyester ribbon riding his paunch. “Where’s yours from?”

“The Planet Vulgaro.” He tugged at the knot, licked his pinkie, pretended to slick his hair. “Spiffed and ready for action. What a team.”

As he drove past the gateposts I said, “You tell Dugger we were coming?”

He nodded. “Mr. Cooperative. Sounds a little depressed, though. I seem to have that effect on people.”

When we reached Sunset I said, “Leo Riley.”

“What about him?”

“How would you rate him on the ace detective scale?”

“Average. Why?”

“Adam Green had the feeling Riley was phoning in the investigation on Shawna, just biding his time till retirement. Then again, he’s kind of a mouthy kid and had nothing to offer Riley but guesses about an affair with a professor.”

“Leo… I called him a few days ago – he’s living out in Coachella. Because I did look up the Yeager file, and there’s not much in it. Left a message – he hasn’t called me back.”

“Not much in the file because there wasn’t much to know – or was Green right about Riley?”

“Maybe both,” he said. “No, Leo was no workaholic… Still, there wasn’t much to go on. She told her roommate she was going to the library and never came back. Like I told you before, Leo figured it for a psycho sex thing, and I can’t say I argued with him. He even made some crack about it turning into a serial killer, and by that time he’d be playing golf in the desert and growing skin cancer. Let’s see what he says when he does call back. Meanwhile, I’ve been thinking about Gretchen’s trip to Duke’s place. What do you think – collecting for services rendered?”

“Gretchen’s never been picky about what she sells.”

“Something else,” he said. “What Salander said – the whole deal about Lauren not wanting to be controlled by her mom. During the notification interview Jane Abbot did all the right things grief-wise. But basically she gave us nothing. Usually the family throws something at you – wild guesses, suspicions, useless stuff, sometimes a real lead. Jane cried a lot, but there was none of that from her. So I called her last night, left a message.” His eyes shifted toward me. “She still hasn’t gotten back to me. Which leads me to the fact that she hasn’t called me once since the notification. That is also not typical, Alex. Your usual middle-class homicide, I get bombarded with messages: what progress has been made, how soon’s the autopsy gonna be over, when can we claim the body, have a funeral. Generally, my problem is playing shrink and clerk and still trying to do my job.

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