Market for Murder by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2024-04-12T20:22:23+00:00

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MacDuff had pegged Jared Stone right—the man did believe the male of the species was superior to the female. He’d been brought to an interrogation room early, at six o’clock, Brendan Campbell told them when they arrived. And he had been left to sit for an hour.

Carly entered first and the man started to laugh. Luke, Campbell and MacDuff watched from the observation room.

“So, they send in the bait first? What a joke!” Stone declared.

“Ah, you’ll spend the rest of your life behind bars. That’s a joke?” Carly asked him.

“For what? Trying to get a female body into bed? You’d need to arrest half the world.”

“Do you always pick up women with your friend in a van—after plying them with mega-charged whiskey? Well, maybe you do. Maybe that’s the only way you ever get a date, but...”

He leaned toward her. “Honey, I can have any cow I want, anytime I want.”

“Now, that’s a laugh. A good joke.”

He was furious; he tried to slam his fists on the table, but since he was cuffed there, all he did was jangle metal and cause a little bump.

“Yeah, that’s you,” Carly said, laughing softly.

“If I weren’t chained here—”

“I’m willing to bet that my training is superior to yours, and that I could clock you within about ten seconds,” Carly said sweetly. “Thing is, you’re going down for accessory to murder at the very least—”

“Again! I was just picking up a bitch! Oh, yeah, you! So you know that I’m telling the truth. I just tried to get you some good whiskey, bar whore!”

“Sticks and stones, sticks and stones—oh, it’s funny, really funny, since you say your name is Stone. I wonder what it is, really. Who cares? I’m sorry, there’s so much more. According to witnesses, you were seen in the vennel with Lila Strom—oh, right after you were seen with the woman in the street, forcing whiskey down her throat.”

“Bull! And hey, what if I was drinking with her? That doesn’t mean I killed her.”

“Maybe you didn’t kill her,” Carly said with a shrug. “Maybe you just brought her to the people who killed her.”

“All I did—”

“You were seen forcing her to drink, and—oh, yeah, you were also seen getting her into the van.”

“Well, talk to Joe, then! Maybe he did something with her. Hey, all right. I’m a good-looking guy. Joe, not so much. I get women drunk so he can get laid.”

Carly smiled very sweetly. “What a good friend you are!”

“Nah, that kind of thing is easy as pie.”

Carly sat back, arms folded over her chest and smiled.

“Pity we don’t really have such a witness,” MacDuff murmured.

“I’ll give her another minute, head in as if she’s my superior. That will rile him a bit more and maybe...”

“When you’re ready,” MacDuff told him.

“I’m so sorry! Joe is dead,” Carly told him.

“Another thing I can sue your asses for!” Stone exclaimed. “Shooting a man in cold blood!”

“Well, it’s allowed in law enforcement when a person is about to shoot an officer,” she said calmly.

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