Gun Dealing (The Ryder Quartet Book 2) by Ian Patrick

Author:Ian Patrick [Patrick, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-08-03T23:00:00+00:00

6 FRIDAY

08.05.

Nadine Salm had set up a full shooting scene reconstruction at the home of Lucky Dlamini. Laser beams, strings, diagrams, notes, printed photos from her first visit, a laptop, and a protractor were all in play when Koekemoer, Dippenaar and Mavis Tshabalala arrived, having been shown through by the Folweni constable on duty at the front of the house.

After the greetings, Nadine went straight back to work, but answered their questions while she was at it, telling them quite freely what she was doing. She was conscious that Mavis was a little nervous about being there.

‘What’s your latest thinking on this, Nadine?’ asked Koekemoer, partly in an attempt to entice Mavis into asking her own questions.

‘Just having a closer look at the blood spatter.’

‘Finding the convergence?’ asked Mavis.

They all stopped and turned to look at Mavis.

‘That’s exactly right, Mavis,’ said Nadine.

‘So you can tell where the bullet came from.’

‘Spot on, Mavis,’ said Nadine, as she continued with her measurements.

Koekemoer and Dippenaar exchanged glances before Dippenaar risked his own question.

‘Don’t we already know where the bullet was fired from?’

‘Nope.’

Dippenaar thought better of pursuing that point, as the emphatic response from Nadine didn’t seem to invite any further discussion. There was a pause while they moved around the room behind her, taking care not to tread where she had put her various markers.

‘Your assistant not with you this morning?’

‘No, Koeks... Can I call you Koeks? I hear they all do.’

‘Ja, of course. Everyone calls me Koeks. Except my wife.’

‘What does she call you?’

‘I’d rather not say.’

‘Oh. OK. Sorry. Anyway…’

‘And please call me Dipps. Everyone calls me Dipps.’

‘Including your wife?’

‘Ah, ja. Including my wife.’

Mavis giggled, then caught herself and covered her face with her hands as Nadine continued.

‘OK. Good to know. Could be helpful in a crisis, I suppose.’

The two detectives looked again at each other, quizzically, and shrugged their shoulders.

‘And I believe that when I’m talking to both of you at the same time I can call you KoeksnDips?’

‘Daarsy!’ said Dippenaar. ‘And when you and I have a moment alone, Nadine, I’ll tell you what his wife calls him.’

‘Can’t wait,’ said Nadine as Koekemoer smacked Dippenaar across the head. ‘As a return favour, I might even tell you what my assistant calls me when no-one is listening. Anyway, speaking of her, I was going to say, Koeks, that my assistant is busy with the ballistics guys. Doing tests on that slug I took out of the wall on Wednesday. I’d really prefer to have her here with me to do this stuff I’m doing right now. We work well together. Been doing it a long time. But it’s more important for her to ensure that they get the ballistics done. She’s up in Durban, Mavis, at Forensic Services, where they’re doing ballistics on the bullet that killed Sergeant Dlamini. You should come up to the lab sometime and see how they do it.’

’Thank you, Ma’am.’

‘Nadine.’

‘Thank you Miss Nadine.’

‘It’ll be our pleasure.’

Dippenaar then risked a question on the blood spatter.

‘These angles and distances you’ve drawn here, Nadine, what’s this telling you?’

‘Well, Dipps, let’s see.

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