Live and Let Bondi by Clare Kauter

Author:Clare Kauter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clare Kauter

Billy wasn’t happy on the trip back to the office.

“I don’t understand why he confessed to the murder. That’s so unlike him.”

I shrugged. “Maybe he really did think that would get him a shorter sentence. If they had a heap of evidence on him, that would have been his lawyer’s advice.”

“Yes, but I still can’t believe he would take that advice.”

“So what’s your working theory?” I asked. “He did what his lawyer told him to do, regretted it and ordered one of his dodgy friends to bump off Rogers as punishment?”

“That seems most likely,” he said. “I mean, the way Jake was murdered is so similar to Spencer’s other victim. They have to be connected.”

“Could be someone related to the first victim,” I pointed out. “Maybe they were angry with Rogers for getting Spencer such a light sentence and so they went after the lawyer because they couldn’t get to Spencer.”

He frowned. “But would they really attack the lawyer for that? Why not the judge?”

I shrugged. “Maybe that’s coming later.”

“It’s been a month. Surely it would have happened already.”

“Probably,” I agreed. “But my point is, this doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with Spencer. After all, that was Detective Bobby’s top theory and we know how often he’s right about stuff like this.” I’d assign a percentage value to his rate of accuracy, but I was still waiting for the first time he was correct about something.

Billy shook his head. “Spencer was hiding something,” he said. “I’m sure of it. He knows something about this, and he doesn’t want us looking into it. You saw the way he freaked out when we said we were going to question his people. He thinks we’re going to find something.”

I didn’t know if I agreed with him, but I figured I probably wasn’t going to be able to change his mind, so I let it go. I had a feeling Billy wanted Spencer to be involved so there was a reason to keep him locked up for another thousand years and he could never show up on Billy’s doorstep again.

I frowned, a thought occurring to me. “How did he find out where you lived?”

“What?” Billy asked.

“Spencer,” I said. “How did he get your address?”

He shrugged. “No idea. I figured one of his contacts found it for him,” he said. “Honestly, I don’t even know how he heard that I was the one who got him arrested. I didn’t actually speak to him over the course of the case. I mostly used security footage and other people’s testimony.”

I frowned. “You didn’t speak to your suspect at all?”

He shook his head. “No fucking way. I saw the footage of that hold up right at the start of the case and I could already tell whoever had done it was a psycho, even without any sound,” he said. “I collected evidence from afar in that investigation.”

“And yet somehow he found out you were involved and tracked you down.”

He nodded. “Yep.”

“Has that ever happened to you before?” I asked.

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