Kill Game (Seven of Spades Book 1) by Cordelia Kingsbridge

Author:Cordelia Kingsbridge [Kingsbridge, Cordelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2017-10-20T18:30:00+00:00

“Could you rewind that, please?” Dominic asked the shop owner.

“Of course.” She hit a button, speeding backward through the footage from the one security camera in her tiny store. Dominic narrowed his eyes at the image of the man on screen.

He’d spent the day before napping on and off at Carlos and Jasmine’s apartment. After waking up that morning feeling much better, he’d celebrated his improvement by calling around to every florist, gift shop, and cutesy boutique in Las Vegas Valley, searching for the one that had sold the gift basket he’d received.

A few hours of work had yielded results: Susan’s Trinkets and Trifles, a little shop in Enterprise. The eponymous Susan had been set aflutter by his fudged story about pursuing a dangerous bail jumper, and she’d been happy to show him the security tapes from yesterday morning.

The camera was aimed at the cash register from across the store. The angle and quality were good enough for Dominic to be certain that the basket on the counter was the one he’d received, but the man purchasing it never faced the camera. Though that had to be deliberate, there was nothing otherwise awkward or suspicious about his body language. And he only looked familiar in the sense that there were a thousand men in Las Vegas who looked just like him from behind.

“Who’s that waiting on him?” Dominic asked.

“That’s Leslie, one of my clerks. Would you like to talk to her?”

“If you don’t mind.”

Unfortunately, Leslie didn’t have much to add. The man had paid in cash; he’d been pleasant, but not so friendly as to draw attention to himself. In fact, she didn’t remember him at all until she was shown the tape, and even then, she could barely describe his face. He’d gotten in and out without making any real impression whatsoever.

Dominic thanked both women for their time and pulled his cell phone from his pocket, dialing Levi as he left the shop. What he’d found wasn’t much, but no detail could be overlooked in a murder investigation, no matter how seemingly insignificant.

Levi answered with a simple, “Hi,” meaning he’d either saved Dominic to his contacts or he recognized the number from yesterday. Dominic found both options strangely pleasing.

“Hey. Listen, don’t freak out, but I have some more information for you.”

He filled Levi in on what he’d been doing and relayed Leslie’s description of the man who’d bought the gift basket.

“Caucasian male,” Levi read back to him, “mid-thirties, average height and build, brown hair? Let me get right on that APB!”

“I know it’s not that helpful,” said Dominic. “And there’s no way to know if that’s the Seven of Spades or just a courier. But at least it’s something, right?”

“Yeah, it’s something. We’ve got a whole lot of little somethings that add up to one big nothing.”

Levi sounded even more tense than usual—which, for a man who seemed to walk through his day like a wind-up toy wound three notches too tight, was pretty impressive.

“Are you okay?” Dominic asked.

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