Lost Hills (Eve Ronin Book 1) by Goldberg Lee

Author:Goldberg, Lee [Goldberg, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Eve went back into the house to start looking for evidence. The kitchen and living room were basically one space separated by a countertop. There was a pink easy chair, a bloated black vinyl recliner, a 1970s-era couch, an antique coffee table, and stacks of DVDs piled on the floor in front of a big-screen TV that was almost as wide as the trailer.

She went back to Coyle’s bedroom and regarded his collection of Planet of the Apes posters and lobby cards as she put on her gloves. The artwork was all from the original movies from the late 1960s and early ’70s, not the later remakes. It was still a kid’s room and not a man’s bedroom.

There was a T-shirt, jeans, and socks on the floor beside the bed and some loose change, half a roll of breath mints, and a wallet on the bureau. The mirrored sliding closet door was open a crack and Eve saw the toe of a hiking boot on the floor inside.

She slid open the door to get a better look at the boot but was distracted by what was hanging among the shirts and jackets inside: a big, furry ape suit, complete from head to toe. It didn’t look like a real ape but rather one of the distinctive “ape men” from the original Planet of the Apes movie.

Now Eve knew that she actually saw a beast on the hill: it was Coyle in this costume. This proved it, but only to her, because she didn’t tell anybody else what she saw up there. That was a mistake. Because she’d been afraid of being mocked, now the suit was simply a bizarre discovery rather than a key piece of evidence.

Why did he come back for his sleeping bag in an ape suit? Was he wearing it when he was watching the house? Was he wearing it during the murders?

“That’s bizarre,” Nan said.

Eve turned to see Nan standing behind her, all suited up in Tyvek and carrying a camera and an evidence collection case.

“Have you ever come across someone obsessed with apes before?” Eve asked, stepping aside to give Nan a better look at it.

“Nope, but I’m willing to bet my salary that there’s traces of semen in that suit.”

“Yuck,” Eve said.

“But that’s only hypothetical because I can’t test it. An ape costume is not among the items listed in your warrant.”

“Did you find any unidentified fibers at the crime scene that might have come from this costume?”

Although the ape suit wasn’t explicitly covered in the warrant, the collection of fibers from the suspect’s home that might match fibers collected at the crime scene was within the broad scope of the search.

“Not that I’m aware of,” Nan said. “But we’ll collect a fiber from it just in case.”

Eve squatted beside the pair of hiking boots, picked up one of them, and showed Nan the tread. “Does this look familiar to you?”

“Yes, it does. These are definitely the same shoes the killer wore in Tanya’s house, but that doesn’t mean it’s the shoes.

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