In Death 57 - Payback in Death by J. D. Robb

Author:J. D. Robb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

“Who put you in charge?” Eve muttered. But she activated the cold pack and laid it on her sore jaw while she worked.

When she had three she felt warranted an interview, she walked out to the bullpen.

“Let’s go talk to people.”

“I’ve got one, I think, and McNab just sent me one,” Peabody told her.

“So that makes five. Let’s have some conversations. Run yours for me.”

“Lieutenant Colton Jayne. He had a network of corruption going, and went down for it about sixteen years ago. Greenleaf headed the internal investigation. He got caught red-handed, Dallas, and the internal investigation was secondary, but he took himself out with a drop piece—he had two other cold weapons—before his trial. His wife stuck by him, claimed setup, filed suits against the department, Greenleaf, the lead investigator. Didn’t get anywhere, but she made a lot of noise. He took himself out sixteen years ago this month. And she works in IT for a company about six blocks from the crime scene.”

“Worth a conversation.”

“She was wife number two, about ten years younger. She had a kid about two when he self-terminated. She found him.

“Next, McNab gave me Marcia Lord, patrol officer. Disciplined twice for excessive force, then she broke a kid’s arm—kid got pinched shoplifting. Instead of calling for medical aid, she cuffed him—broken arm, and she cuffed him. Eleven years old. Got caught on a bystander’s cam—the kid screaming in pain, and her threatening to break his other arm if he didn’t shut up.”

“Okay,” Eve muttered as her arm twinged in memory of the bone snapping under Richard Troy’s brutal attack.

“Her father was on the job—detective in the one-four. She got his service weapon, took herself out. The father made some noise, got in Greenleaf’s face, Whitney’s face. He turned in his papers shortly after. He got a PI license, keeps an office in Alphabet City.”

Eve nodded as they took the steps to her garage level.

“Former cop, PI, you could find a way to access Greenleaf. Plug the addresses in. We’ll add mine and program for the most logical route to all five.”

“What’ve you got?”

“Oglebee, Detective Justin, Organized Crime. Turns out he worked with them more than against them. Bought himself a fancy place in the Caymans with mob money, along with a fancy boat, fancy car. Lived the high life until Greenleaf dug down. Wife had already left him, but his son, eighteen at the time, stuck. He found his father. Death ruled suicide, but a lot of questions there. Oglebee knew where a lot of the bodies were buried, may have buried some of his own. His lawyers were pushing for immunity, witness protection.”

“Mob hit?” Peabody asked as she started entering addresses.

“I’d give it fifty-fifty. The son applied to the Academy, denied. The son, Steven, is thirty-three now, works delivery for a food joint, and Greenleaf’s building’s in his area.”

“Definitely a conversation.”

Eve read off the addresses, rounded up the other two while Peabody programmed.

“Looks like we start with Lord, former Detective Eli.”

Peabody studied Eve’s profile as they streamed into traffic.

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