Flush_A Robin MacFarland Mystery by Sky Curtis

Author:Sky Curtis [Curtis, Sky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781771333733
Goodreads: 32686822
Publisher: Inanna Publications
Published: 2017-05-24T00:00:00+00:00

18.

BY FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON I WAS TOAST. What a day. My synthetic lunch was bouncing around in my stomach. A murder scene. The cops. My first alcohol busting treatment. And now I couldn’t have have wine and pizza with Cindy and my friend Diane tonight because I had that stupid meeting with Jack-off. I’d have to text Diane. I had been looking forward to spending a night with my gal pals. Cindy had disappeared somewhere, probably following up her gang story. I started to send a text but was sidelined by a message from my daughter Evelyn, Lynnie for short. Know any cosmetic surgeons? I groaned. I’d deal with that on Sunday during our family dinner. Every Sunday, like clockwork, my kids were attracted to the family home like iron filings to a magnet.

It was time to write everything down. At least the office was quiet. By late in the day many of the journalists and admin staff had gone home, having started very early in the morning. I stabbed the enter key on my computer and the screen flashed into life. I was typing out all the details I could remember about Todd’s profile and my meeting with him in Starbucks when the phone rang. My caller ID said it was the Express Research Department.

“Hi, Ms. MacFarland—”

“Robin, Alison, please call me Robin.”

She laughed awkwardly, “Hi, Robin, I got most of the info you wanted. Sorry I took so long.”

“No, no, that was fast work, Alison. Okay, shoot. I’m ready.” I brought up a blank page on my computer screen and put the earphone into my phone so I could type while she talked. Although there weren’t many left in the newsroom, I didn’t want to disturb the remaining few with my speaker phone. Plus, I didn’t want to be scooped.

“Okay. Some of the customers of the deep lake water cooling system are the Toronto-Dominion Centre, the Royal Bank Plaza, RBC Centre, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, and the Air Canada Centre. So far these are all the downtown customers in the financial district. It isn’t a definitive list, and I couldn’t find out who the rest of the customers were, but at least there are a few to start with. I got all the rest of the information you needed.”

“Thanks Alison, I doubt the customers are that important anyway, I’m not thinking this was a corporate problem. Most likely the murder, if it was murder, was not motivated by an outside business. Those hits are usually done execution style, you know, down on the knees and a quick shot in the back of the head.”

Really? Did I say that? Who was I kidding? I had never investigated a murder in my life. My information came from cheap paperback mysteries that I read at night, half cock-eyed with wine.

“Yes, I know what you mean by execution style. TV and all. Anyway, Richard van Horner was born in Holland in 1958 but came to Canada as a baby with his parents in the early sixties.

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