Joanne Pence_Angie Amalfi 09 by Bell Cook & Candle

Author:Bell, Cook & Candle [Bell, Cook & Candle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061030840
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2002-01-08T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Paavo had to wait overnight for the results of his identity checks to come in. An Illinois driver’s license showed a Zoe Vane, age twenty-five, living in Chicago. He had her photo faxed to him. It was the same woman.

The Chicago P.D. checked to see if she had any kind of record. She came up clean in both city and state. He stared at the fax photo and wondered at the sadness on her face.

While it was hard to tell if she was lying, according to Angie she was beyond private, keeping everything bottled up inside, which meant it might burst out into…what? She troubled him. She was up to something, and it had nothing to do with baking cakes.

Rysk was a puzzle. Searching Department of Motor Vehicles, local, state, and federal records had turned up nothing at all on Edward Bowie, although he did show up on social security’s database as a self-employed programmer. Social security records were easy to tamper with, however.

Paavo usually read people pretty quickly, but there was something impenetrable about that guy, and it troubled him.

He was clearly older than he seemed and older than most Goths. Paavo would have placed his age around twenty-seven or twenty-eight. He’d seen guys like that before, the baby-faced ones who kept a youthful appearance as long as they didn’t become dissipated. Put teenage-style clothes on them, cut their hair a certain way, and they could fool most people.

Edward Bowie was one of that type.

Along with age came wisdom. He wasn’t the cool, mellow, relaxed dude he pretended to be, but whether that wisdom caused him to be dangerous was another question.

He and Zoe were into the Goth look, as Travis Walters had been. He needed to find out more about that subculture and just how dangerous it might be.

Walters’s autopsy came back as he was searching Bowie’s records. Walters had such a mixture of drugs in his system, if he hadn’t jumped from the bridge, his brain might have burst anyway. Whether Travis took the drugs by choice or was forced was another matter. The coroner reported that paranoia and suggestibility would have been a likely result. Walters might have been psychologically driven to jump off that building rather than physically.

Whatever had happened, the death-and-demon-worshipping Goth world was riddled with drugs. The autopsy report further convinced Paavo that Angie should have nothing to do with people in that subculture.

The problem was to convince her of it.

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