Graveyard Bay by Thomas Kies

Author:Thomas Kies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2019-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“There was another fatal OD last night.” Mike glanced over the top of his computer screen, focusing on John, who was seated next to me. “This one was an eighteen-year-old male, a freshman at the community college. Bryan Townsend lived in a condo at 81 Buckner Avenue. We talked with his roommate. He said he knew that Townsend was using and thought that he might have been dealing to pay for his habit. His body was found in the men’s room at the Exxon Station on West Avenue. We searched his car for drugs, and it was clean. He must have either shot up his supply or someone robbed him.”

“Was he dealing for someone or was he working on his own?”

Mike was still trying to figure out why John was there. “Don’t know.” He’d met John the day before when he’d identified Abby Tillis’s body.

When we both entered his office, Mike politely shook his hand, but his face registered curiosity.

Up front, I could have explained why John was with me, but I was in a bitchy mood and still smarting from the bombshell revelation that Mike had attached himself to a pretty, young Realtor. Sooner or later, Mike would ask. I was just going to make him wait.

Mike moved his eyes from John to me. He wanted to watch my expression when he told me the news. “Oh, and we found the dead body of a high-level street dealer last night just behind the East Sheffield Train Station. Have you ever heard of Travis Monk?”

I felt a sharp jolt of electricity snap inside my chest. I did my best not to let my face betray my shock. Travis Monk was the drug dealer I’d staked out in November on Edison Avenue. Before the “homeless” scout ratted me out, I’d taken dozens of photos of his customers and clear shots of Monk’s Cadillac Escalade. I’d sent them anonymously to Mike’s email. I’d assumed that since he was never arrested, Monk had moved to another town.

“How did he die?” Even I could hear the nerves in my voice.

Please let it be natural causes or an overdose.

“Foley is doing the autopsy today, but from what I could see, he’d been tortured and beaten to death.”

John leaned forward, suddenly very interested. “Merlin Finn?”

Mike was still watching me when he answered. “It has his MO all over it. Plus, we think that Monk was one of Wolfline’s crew.”

I asked, “Have you checked to see if there’s any security video in that part of town?”

Mike frowned as if I should know better than to ask that question. “Of course we have. One camera mounted in the parking lot of the train station and one security camera at the Shell station up the street. The killers dropped him off using Monk’s own Escalade. The man we saw rolling the body out of the SUV was dressed in a black parka and wearing a ski mask, just like the thugs in the marina homicides. We haven’t found the kid’s Escalade yet.

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