Head Games: A Jenna Blake Body of Evidence Thriller by Golden Christopher

Author:Golden, Christopher [Golden, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Daring Greatly Corporation
Published: 2013-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

The next morning Jenna woke up determined. She refused to allow her friends' doubts, and their insistence upon seeing her as nothing more than their eccentric friend from high school, to get in her way. Maybe the police would stop short of making assumptions that would handicap their case, and maybe they wouldn't.

If they never saw beneath the surface of what had happened to the Meserve and Gage families, Jenna was going to make certain it wasn't because she hadn't worked hard to bring it to their attention.

After April had left for the hospital, Jenna took a quick shower and put on just a dash of makeup. She put on a pair of stretch twill pants and a navy blue turtleneck, then belted her black leather jacket over it. Before leaving, she looked at herself in the full-length mirror on the back of her mother's bathroom door.

"At least I don't look like I'm still in high school," she said aloud.

It had turned cold again overnight, and she had the heater up full blast. Icicles dangled from the fronts of houses and mailboxes and even from trees in some places, but the roads were clear.

Fortunately, she had never had reason to go inside the police station while growing up in Natick. She had passed it hundreds of times, as she took the bus to Natick High. Now, as she parked in the lot, across from a row of imposing patrol cars, she felt a nervous flutter in her chest.

Quit it, she told herself. You're used to this. You've been dragged over the coals by the Cambridge cops, and inside plenty of police stations.

All of which was true.

But, somehow, this was different. She wasn't the medical examiner's assistant out here. These cops didn't work with Slick; it wasn't even the same county. They would have no idea who he was, and no vested interest in listening to anything that Jenna had to say.

None at all. Here, in Natick, she was just Jenna Blake, whose mother was a surgeon at the local hospital, and who had pretty much kept out of trouble in high school.

High school, which had not been very long ago at all.

Despite the fact that just the day before she had helped Slick in an investigation, with the complete cooperation of the detective involved, Jenna was anxious. As she stepped inside the station and glanced around for a duty officer to tell her how to find the detectives working the case, Jenna was tempted, for a moment, to turn and run out. To get in the car and drive home.

What stopped her wasn't her friendship with Chris or John. They hadn't really been that close. Nor was it any sense of duty, now that she had worked with Slick for so long. What stopped her from turning around was a combination of two things: the fact that there was a mystery here, and it called out to her, and — maybe even more importantly — the memory of the doubtful looks on her friends' faces when she tried to talk to them about it.

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