Justice Betrayed by Patricia Bradley

Author:Patricia Bradley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense;Cold cases (Criminal investigation)—Fiction;Murder—Investigation—Fiction;Suspense fiction;FIC042060;FIC042040;FIC027110
ISBN: 9781493413942
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2018-04-05T04:00:00+00:00

25

RACHEL WAS SILENT BESIDE BOONE as he drove downtown, allowing him to make a mental list. Pull Gabby Winslow’s case once he reached the CJC. Maybe the other detectives had missed something. Call the US Marshals for late-developing information on the ricin. Check out—

“It won’t take both of us to interview Culver,” Rachel said suddenly. “Why don’t you drop me off at the parking garage and go see him by yourself?”

“And you?”

“I think I’ll catch Monica Carpenter before she leaves. Nana brought up some interesting things that Monica might feel freer talking about without you along.”

“What sort of things?” He didn’t like the idea, especially if Monica turned out to be the one Vegas was arguing with.

“Her relationship with Harrison and possibly even Winters. And you don’t need me to talk to Culver.”

“Just watch your back. Someone tried to kill you or the Judge last night. And for all we know, that person could be Monica Carpenter.” He sensed her stiffening.

“Even if she’s the killer, she’s not going to kill me in her condo,” she said evenly. “I face danger every day I put on a gun, just like everyone else in the department. You don’t have to hover over me.”

“I’m not hovering.” Okay, so he was. But his kind of hovering had brought the soldiers under him home from Iraq. All alive. Except one. “It’s one thing to face down a criminal holding a gun—that’s not personal and you’re well trained for it. Whoever sent the ricin is a different breed and doesn’t care who they hurt to get to you.”

“But—”

“No buts. I’m coming with you to interview Carpenter.”

“Really, it’ll be better if you don’t—the questions I plan to ask aren’t the kind she’ll want to answer in front of you. You need to do your thing and let me do mine,” she said. “I’ll be okay. Criminals who do things in secret aren’t apt to attack in broad daylight. Besides, Monica Carpenter didn’t send me the ricin. She wouldn’t have known I would be at the Judge’s. Or where he lives.”

“His address would be easy enough to find out. And Rose told her about the party he was having—Monica could have assumed you would be there.” He made a left turn and then pulled into the parking garage. “But you’re right. You’re a cop and you can handle the situation. Just watch your back.”

“Ten-four.”

He grinned. “Where are you parked?”

“Second level.”

Once she got in her car and drove away, he took her parking space. The Med was a block from the Criminal Justice Center, and the short walk would give him time to sort out his thoughts on the case.

He’d just left the relative coolness of the parking garage when his phone rang. “Callahan.”

“This is US Marshal Steve Lock. I’m handling the ricin case involving one of your officers, Rachel Sloan, but she’s not answering her home phone, and I don’t have her cell number. Can you get me in touch with her?”

“She’s on her way to interview a person of interest.

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