Hooking Him by Reynolds Aurora Rose

Author:Reynolds, Aurora Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-16T00:00:00+00:00

Suggestion 8

DON’T BELIEVE WHAT YOU HEAR

CALVIN

I look over the crime scene photos on my desk, trying to figure out what I’m missing. The place where I grew up has had its fair share of crime, and there have been more than a few murders in the area over the years. But none of them have gone cold as quickly as the two cases that have recently hit my desk.

I pick up the photo of Chris Davis, a student from Ohio who was here with his girlfriend and a few of their college friends on vacation. His body was found near the beach, with lacerations around his wrists and neck, but no rope was found in the area, meaning whoever committed the crime had taken it with them when they left. His girlfriend and friends said they had been out the night before, partying at the clubs in the area, and around two in the morning, he told his girlfriend he was going outside to smoke but never returned. No other physical evidence was left at the crime scene due to the rain that had fallen the morning his body was found by a woman walking her dog. The surveillance cameras in the area never caught a clear picture of him, and no one witnessed him coming or going from the club.

I drop Chris’s photo and pick up the one of Mike Hurl, a bartender whose body was found last night by a runner in one of the local parks. Where Chris died of strangulation, Mike died from blunt-force trauma to the back of his skull, and the weapon—a hammer—was left at the scene. I drop Mike’s photo and look at both men side by side. Both of them were around the same age, attractive, and fit, and both were murdered in the last month. The two cases have nothing else in common, but still my gut is telling me they’re linked. I just don’t know how.

With a groan of frustration, I sit back in my chair and scrub my hands down my face. There’s nothing worse than having an open case, especially when loved ones are looking to you for answers you can’t give.

“Cal, you good, man?”

I look at Herb, sitting a desk away. A man who took me under his wing when I was a rookie and taught me everything he knew about being a detective.

“Yeah, I just need coffee and some air.” I stand, pick up my badge, and clip it to my belt before holstering my gun on my hip.

“Maybe you should go home to shower,” he suggests, informing me without actually saying the words that I look like shit.

Last evening, two seconds after I’d pulled up to Anna’s place, Herb called to tell me that I was needed. So instead of spending the night with Anna, like I hoped I’d be doing, I spent the night at a crime scene and then the morning talking to Mike’s friends and neighbors, looking for leads.

“I might stop by my house to shower, but I’ll be back.

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