Never Saw It Coming: (An eSpecial from New American Library) by Barclay Linwood

Author:Barclay, Linwood [Barclay, Linwood]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2012-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

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The girl howled like a wounded animal.

She threw her arms around Detective Wedmore, put her face on her chest and sobbed. “No, no, no.”

It wasn’t, strictly speaking, procedure to take murder suspects into one’s arms and comfort them, but Wedmore found herself doing just that. She placed her hands on the girl’s back and patted her ever so gently, thinking to herself what a pathetic gesture it was. Might as well be saying, “There, there.”

“Daddy,” she whimpered. “Daddy.”

“I have to ask you some questions, Melissa,” Wedmore said.

But the girl continued to weep, and it was ten minutes before Wedmore could get her back into the chair in the interrogation room. Instead of facing her from across the table, she brought her own chair around next to Melissa’s and allowed the girl to hold onto her hands.

“Someone killed him?” Melissa asked disbelievingly. “Are you sure?”

Wedmore thought back to what she’d seen. “Yes,” she said with certainty. “What haven’t you told me, Melissa? What aren’t you telling me?”

“I’ve told you everything, I swear.”

“Who would want to hurt your father?”

“No one. Nobody.”

“Did someone else help you, Melissa? Was there a third person involved in getting your mother, and the car, up to the lake?”

“No, I’m telling you, it was just me and Dad. And he didn’t even hurt Mom. That was me, that was all me.”

“What about the man who’s the father of your child?”

“Lester?”

“That’s right. Did he and your father get along? Is it possible they could have had some kind of argument?”

“My parents liked Lester,” Melissa said. “They were mad at me because I didn’t want to marry him.” She put her face in her hands again and wept.

Wedmore sighed, and got up.

This was the damnedest thing she’d dealt with in a while.

She was just leaving the interrogation room when her phone buzzed. It was a text, from Joy.

It read: “Got something. Call me.”

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