Justice in Mystic Grove (A Liz Bean Mystery Book Book 3) by S.F. Bose

Author:S.F. Bose [Bose, S.F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

“What was your impression?” I asked. We sat in Sam’s office after the interview with Larissa Meagher.

Sam frowned. “I found her hard to read at times, but on balance, I thought she was believable.”

I nodded. “I thought so too. If what she said about her car being parked all day in Madison is true, that kills Rose’s story about seeing Larissa’s car at the cabin.”

“Yeah, except someone else might have driven her car that day without her knowledge,” Sam replied.

“Who? Larissa, Dom, and Meagher were the only ones with a key to her car. If Larissa was in Chicago, Dom Fontana was with his friend, and Meagher was dead, who else could have driven it?” I asked.

Sam twirled his pen while he thought. “Maybe there were more car keys in circulation. Any one of them could have made an extra copy for someone else,” he replied.

I felt a headache coming on. “Aside from those three, who would have a key and also know where Larissa parked her car that day?”

Sam chewed his lip. Then he shook his head. “Yeah I see your point. One of the two guys at the cabin probably had a red car and Rose mistook it for Larissa’s Caddy.”

“That’s more likely,” I agreed. “I thought it was interesting that Larissa doubted Dom’s story about the fight with Moose Crotty.”

Sam shrugged. “To be honest, I could see a guy getting depressed over losing a woman he’d dated for a short amount of time. Maybe he thought she was the one he’d marry. Even the unusual drinking and fight made sense, if he loved the woman.”

“You really think so?” I asked.

Sam frowned and organized some papers on his desk. “I do.”

I was thinking about that when Newmont called. Sam put him on speakerphone.

“Any luck finding Rose?” Sam asked.

“No. We talked to the concession manager and he didn’t know what we were talking about,” Newmont replied. “He’d been working all day and didn’t call the police for anything.”

“Was it a man or woman who called in the sighting?” I asked.

“Detective Swanson followed up with 911. After review, they said it sounded like the caller used voice changer technology to alter the voice,” Newmont replied. “Could have been a man or woman.”

“It was probably Eric or Rose,” Sam commented and Newmont grunted.

“So that was a dead end. But I have a couple of other things for you,” Newmont said. “I passed a copy of Eric O’Ryan’s flash drive to Detective Swanson. I gave him a heads-up on the videos and we watched both of them several times. He’s going to see what the video techs in Madison can come up with.”

“Any timeframe for getting back to you?” Sam asked.

“Swanson’s going to expedite the analysis,” Newmont replied. I was happy. Rose’s videos were our best clue to Steven Meagher’s killer.

“Okay,” Sam replied and he smiled.

We heard Newmont humming off-tune and rustling some paper. “Let’s see. Here we go. The 911 call center confirmed they received a payphone call about a dead body on the day of the murder.

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