Jack McEvoy - 04 - The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Author:Michael Connelly
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780316166300
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published: 2009-05-26T19:57:52+00:00
EIGHT: Home Sweet Home
On Saturday morning I was in my room at the Kyoto reading Larry Bernard’s front-page story about the release of Alonzo Winslow from juvenile custody when one of the detectives from Hollywood Division called me. Her name was Bynum. She told me my house had been cleared as a crime scene and returned to my custody.
“I can just go back?”
“That’s right. You can go home now.”
“Does that mean the investigation is complete? I mean, pending the arrest of the guy, of course.”
“No, we still have a few loose ends we’re trying to figure out.”
“Loose ends?”
“I can’t discuss the case with you.”
“Well, can I ask you about Angela?”
“What about her?”
“I was wondering if she had been… you know, tortured or anything.”
There was a pause while the detective decided how much to tell me.
“I’m sorry but the answer is yes. There was evidence of rape with a foreign object and the same pattern of slow suffocation as in the other cases. Multiple ligature marks on the neck. He repeatedly choked her out and revived her. Whether this was a means of getting her to talk about the story you two were working on, or just his way of getting off, is unclear at this time. I guess we will have to ask the man himself when we get him.”
I was silent as I thought about the horror Angela had faced.
“Anything else, Jack? It’s Saturday. I’m hoping to salvage half a day off with my daughter.”
“Uh, no, sorry.”
“Well, you can go home now. Have a nice day.”
Bynum hung up and I sat there, thinking. Calling it “home” seemed wrong. I wasn’t sure I wanted the house back, because I wasn’t sure it was home any longer. My sleep—what little there was of it—had been invaded the last two nights by images of Angela Cook’s face in the darkness under the bed and the muffled coughing sound so expertly implanted in my mind by her killer. Only in my dream, everything was underwater. Her wrists were not bound and she reached up to me as she sank. Her last cry for help came out in a bubble and when it broke with the sound the Unsub had made, I came awake.
To now live and try to sleep in the same place seemed impossible to me. I spread the curtains and looked out the single window of my small room. I had a view of the civic center. The beautiful and ageless City Hall rose in front of me. Next to it was the criminal courts building, as ugly as the prison most of its customers were headed to. The sidewalks and green lawns were empty. It was Saturday and nobody came downtown on the weekend. I pulled the curtains closed.
I decided I would keep the room as long as the paper was paying. I would go to the house but only to get fresh clothes and other things I needed. In the afternoon I would call a Realtor and see about getting rid of the place.
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