Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein

Author:Linda Fairstein [Fairstein, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 0307455319
Google: -VIzDhGYB0gC
Amazon: B001NLL17Q
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2009-01-05T23:00:00+00:00

hat do you mean Amber won't be back?” Mike asked.

“We're talking about Elise Huff, I thought.”

Kiernan had seated himself in the armchair in the corner after Mike calmed him down. If he had read a paper or heard a newscast in the last few weeks, he had missed all of the crime stories or was playing a good game.

“And I thought you didn't know anything else about her. I'll get back to Elise. Maybe when you listen to the cell phone messages you left her, it'll tweak your memory,” Mike said, trying to completely unhinge his subject, jumping around from one sensitive topic to the other.

Elise's cell phone had never been recovered, but from the way Kiernan's legs started bouncing, he didn't want to be reminded of their exchanges.

“How long have you known Amber?”

He was caught between the proverbial rock and hard place. He had no reason to think we knew anything about Amber and was clearly blindsided by Mike's reference to her.

“I've met her a couple of times.”

“Where?”

“The Head. I helped my dad run it before we opened down here.”

“How long have you known about their relationship?”

Kiernan closed his eyes and thought for almost a minute. “What relationship would that be? She was a friend. Everybody likes my dad. Everybody. Then we opened Ruffles, and she'd drop in to say hello sometimes when she was downtown.”

Mike rolled the desk chair over to sit face-to-face with Kiernan. “Did Amber get booted from the Head?”

“Did she tell you that?”

Mike kept staring at Kiernan.

“Okay, okay. You're asking me. Maybe she did. She couldn't hold her liquor. Kept saying a lot of stupid things. Embarrassing things.”

“What did you mean when you said she isn't coming back?”

“She went home. Amber comes from some Podunk town out west. My dad told me—no, no, forget my dad. I guess I heard from my brother Danny or one of the guys who works at the Head that she finally figured out she had no frigging future hanging around waiting for some married man to give it up for her. That totally wasn't happening, get it? It was over.”

“Did you see her before she left?”

“She came in here a couple of times this summer. I'm easy with the free drinks,” Kiernan said, forcing a smile. “Look, why are you asking me about Amber?”

The music from downstairs was louder now. So was the crowd, shouting over the noise from the jukebox. The buzz from the sidewalk in front of the bar was also heavier.

“Nobody's seen her in a few weeks.”

“I'm telling you, she's gone home.”

“Convince me. How do you know that for sure?”

Kiernan Dylan's feet were tapping on the floor. He bit the inside of his cheek and looked up at the ceiling. “ 'Cause I packed up some stuff for her, okay? 'Cause she asked me to throw out some of her weird, freaky—her stuff, okay? 'Cause she was never coming back to use it—she told me that herself.”

I tried not to react as Kiernan admitted that he

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