Good Morning, Killer by April Smith

Author:April Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Women detectives, Psychological fiction, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Kidnapping victims, Santa Monica (Calif.), Government investigators, Santa Monica, Fiction, Psychological, California, Women Sleuths, Women detectives - California - Santa Monica, Thrillers, Mystery fiction, Fugitives from justice
ISBN: 9780375412400
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2003-04-22T05:53:33+00:00

Now it was safe to call Lieutenant Barry Loomis.

“I can’t believe it,” I said over again.

“Things are still touch-and-go.”

“Can I see him?”

“He’s in intensive care,” said Barry. “They’re only allowing family.”

That would be his sister down from Oakland. Did Andrew say he had a brother, too? Somewhere in Florida? The euphoria that had lifted me plain off the floor at Jason’s news that Andrew was not only alive, but claiming he had been the victim of a robbery, and we were going to get through this thing, crashed. Now there were frightened family members waiting in a hospital corridor.

“You said he drove himself to the hospital.”

“He did, but he collapsed. They rushed him into surgery. One of the bullets pierced his lung.”

“Oh my God.”

“That was okay,” Barry went on, “but then he had a cardiac arrest in the ER.”

“No!” I shouted.

Barry was saying things like, “Take it easy. He’ll make it. He’s as tough as they come—”

“I’m sorry, it’s just so—”

“It’s a shock.”

“Why didn’t anybody call me?”

“At a time like this,” he said stiffly, “you tend to close ranks.”

“But he’ll pull through?”

“He’s in a coma, Ana.”

The pain in my kidneys. Everything. I was just undone.

“They don’t know,” he went on. “They’re watching him. Real close. He might have to have heart surgery later on. They found some underlying situation, I’m not exactly clear on that.”

I couldn’t speak. He let me be with it.

“You okay?”

“I’m okay,” I managed. “Thanks, Barry. So, look. Any suspects?”

“Not yet. He hasn’t been able to say a hell of a lot.”

“Did you recover the gun?”

There was a pause. “No such luck.”

“Stay in touch, okay?”

“You got it, hon.”

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