Frankie's Back in Town by Jeanie London

Author:Jeanie London
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-02-22T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

JACK LOOKED FORWARD TO seeing Frankie this afternoon. She’d sounded too matter-of-fact on the phone, leaving him guessing that she’d had a run-in with the grinding rumor mill.

With the hopes of bringing her some good news, he’d spent the afternoon going through the last of the victims’ statements. He wasn’t sure why he’d expected a place with the name of Greywacke Lodge to be normal, but after reading the statements, he’d come to the conclusion that most of the folks living here were both gray and wacked.

Eddie Shaw, for example. This computer-savvy old man had given his personal information via e-mail to a company that promised to help him meet women online. After backstopping his online activities, Jack’s tech guy uncovered a phishing scam the FBI had recently shut down.

And luckily before they’d done more damage than charging online fees for Web hosting services, which totaled less than four hundred dollars. The extravagant credit lines established with Shaw’s identity eliminated everyone at the lodge with less than supervisory access to his personal information.

The Connells insisted the clerk at a local music store had stolen their credit information when they’d purchased a gift card for their great-granddaughter at Christmas. According to them he was the likeliest suspect because of his blue spiky hair and variety of piercings.

The clerk, however, despite his unconventional appearance, hadn’t run through anything but the approved total of the Connells’ purchase. And fortunately for Jack, a bank camera had caught an image on video of an unidentified woman making a cash withdrawal on the Connells’ fraudulent credit line in Tucson. Jack notified the FBI to discover the woman’s identity.

It wasn’t Frankie or Susanna. That much Jack knew. Both had been ensconced in their offices with an impressive number of witnesses to corroborate their whereabouts. And even if they hadn’t, Jack knew better. He might not see much of Susanna since Skip’s death, but he cared about her. And Frankie…his gut told him she wasn’t a criminal, either.

However, since a prosecutor could argue that either could have been working with an accomplice, Jack needed a positive ID on that female.

Another unexpected development came because Bridget Minahan’s purse had been stolen out of her shopping cart during one of the lodge’s Wal-Mart outings. By the time she’d arrived at the checkout and noticed the theft, the thieves had already hit up two office supply stores for computer equipment. Those thieves were still at large, but Bridget’s daughter-in-law had closed her accounts and had the banks issue new cards.

The timing of this incident and the change in Bridget Minahan’s personal information meant that, like Eddie Shaw, not all members of Greywacke Lodge’s accounting department had access to the new information used to open the credit lines, which enabled him to narrow the suspect list even more.

As far as Jack was concerned, this progress was coming as a mixed bag. On one hand, he was both pleased and impressed with Randy and the chosen few detectives they’d assigned to work this case.

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