Letting You Down (An Allie Down Mystery Thriller Book 4) by PJ Fernor

Author:PJ Fernor [Fernor, PJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-One

Ben tossed me a marker through the air.

I caught it and lifted an eyebrow.

“Let’s get to work,” he said.

“What?”

“We have two cases here, Allie Down,” he said. “We have work to do.”

“Ben. Stop. You are not getting involved in The One.”

“Too late,” he said as he looked around the room. “I gave you a room in my house. I think I’m just as much a part of this as you are now. It’s got me upset too. Just so you know. Thinking about what that guy did to you and Lo. What he said. The way he manipulated you.”

I sucked in a deep breath. “How about we work on Jessica and Harold’s murders first?”

“Okay,” Ben said. “Let’s do that instead.”

I rolled the marker in my hand and diverted my attention from the whiteboard to the cork board wall that was blank.

“My fear is that there is no connection between Jessica and Harold,” I said.

“Right. That’s an honest fear to have. As you said, we have to keep digging.”

“Johnny said Harold has no family or friends,” I said. “But he knew Johnny.”

“From saving his life.”

“So, I’m supposed to picture Johnny Barby as the kind of guy that would save someone’s life and then check up on that person?”

“I know. It doesn’t seem logical. But maybe if Harold really was alone, Johnny found a soft spot in his heart.”

“I don’t think Johnny is capable of having a soft spot in his heart,” I said.

“Then we go with what we have,” Ben said. “We know that Jessica was attacked by Jerry from IY Green. At the orders of Anthony and Giovanni. While she was hurt or dazed or even knocked out, someone cut off her hand and moved her body off the trail. Now we have Harold. A man who had a heart attack once before. He was out walking the woods just before sunset. Let’s assume that’s the time frame here. Someone could have attacked him, which triggered a heart attack. Or maybe the guy had a heart attack while walking.”

“And someone stumbled across his body?” I asked. “If that’s the case, then this killer needs to put down the knife and buy a lottery ticket.”

“Very true,” Ben said. “So maybe we need to figure out who else was in the park around sunset. Someone had to have seen something. Maybe the killer went to the park to attack someone…” Ben’s eyes moved toward the open door. “Dad?”

I turned around and Ben’s father stood in the doorway.

Wearing oversized black pants with black, fuzzy slippers. He wore a black t-shirt with a dark flannel over it. He looked cozy. And he was smiling.

“I thought you were sleeping, Dad,” Ben said. “And you’re not supposed to take the stairs.”

“Says who?” Ben Senior asked. He looked at me. “See how they treat me here? They bring in these people to tell me how to live in my own house.”

“Your house?” Ben asked.

“Hey, I raised you,” Ben Senior said. “Don’t talk back to me. I can still punish you.

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