I Hear They Burn for Murder by J L Aarne

Author:J L Aarne [Aarne, J L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Amazon: B01BN6JXAC
Goodreads: 29156172
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2016-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Halloween was always pretty insane, but the crimes that occurred were largely local cop problems, not FBI problems. Ezekiel had excused his team to go home early and they all had except for Crewes, who was finishing a report at her desk. Ezekiel had told her she could leave, but she wanted to finish it. The others had left an hour earlier. Kenner and Schechter had returned the day before from Washington—the elderly rapist killer had turned out to be one of the volunteers who delivered meals—and they were tired and Kenner at least was still too disturbed to concentrate well. He’d have it together by Monday, so Ezekiel had ordered him home.

Ezekiel was clearing up some paper work of his own, most of it busy work like supply and equipment requisitions. Danny Jeong needed a new computer and he had written a long, earnest request for software, complete with detailed explanations of exactly how it would help them to do their job better and faster. Ezekiel didn’t understand most of the tech jargon, which meant it was likely something incredibly complicated and therefore Jeong was probably right and they could use it. It would also be a huge pain in the ass to install and implement, but that would be Jeong and Murray’s problem.

He signed the form and approved it.

Detective Parker had sent him a file on the forensics they had taken from the last Lamplighter scene. He looked at shoe prints—size ten, tread matching some cheap brand of tennis shoe that could be bought at several retailers. There were other shoe prints, a lot of shoe prints because the building attracted vagrants and squatters, but these were the shoe prints found on top of the blood and oil and ashes. It was where The Lamplighter had walked.

It was evidence, but it didn’t reveal anything except that the killer was probably a little more than six feet tall and weighted between 170 and 180 pounds. There were a lot of people in the world who fell into that category if that was all they had. So far, it was.

If Ezekiel gave Parker what he had, they would have more. But he wasn’t going to do that.

Crewes stuck her head in his door and said, “I’m taking off, sir. Unless you need me for something?”

“No, go on home, Crewes,” Ezekiel said. “You can—”

He looked up at her and stopped. She was wearing a curly rainbow colored wig, garish blue eye shadow and a skintight black and white diamond pattern suit.

“What the hell are you wearing?”

She grinned at him. “Happy Halloween,” she said. “I’m going to a party right after I leave. Thought I’d save time and get dressed in the bathroom. Do you like it?”

Halloween, right. He remembered now. Someone had put a colorful cardboard cutout of a smiling jack-o’-lantern on the door to his office earlier in the week, which Ezekiel had promptly ripped off and tossed in the trash. He had nothing against Halloween per se, but party decorations had their place and that place was nowhere near his office.

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