Never the Crime by Colin Conway

Author:Colin Conway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books

CHAPTER 34

That son of a bitch.

He lost me.

Clint knew that tailing someone without being noticed was difficult enough under the best of circumstances. Those included a team of several cars, communicating by radio, and driving nondescript vehicles which blended into the surrounding traffic. Preferably in the daytime. With an unsuspecting target.

Clint was driving his unmarked Crown Victoria, a beast of a police cruiser that was all but extinct. One glance was all it took to make it as police. He was following Garrett alone, at night, and he was pretty sure the slippery bastard knew Clint was there.

While tailing him, they ran into Saturday evening traffic on Division Street. Garrett made the light at Cataldo Avenue, right before the bridge that crossed the Spokane River into downtown, and Clint didn’t. He watched Garrett’s taillights until they disappeared around the bend. He knew that Garrett had only two options once he made the bend. West on Spokane Falls Boulevard, or south on Browne. Both took him deeper into downtown, although Browne would be the quicker route if he was headed toward the South Hill.

Clint accelerated when the light turned green. He weaved his way through traffic as best he could. When he made the bend, the lights for westbound and southbound traffic were both green. He saw no sign of Garrett’s personal vehicle.

Time to choose.

Where’s he going?

Clint ran through people Garrett knew and had contacted before. The most likely one that popped up was the little number he’d started seeing recently. All it had taken to find the name of the woman he’d stopped earlier in the week was to check Garrett’s unit history Her name was Tiana Madison Kennedy. A quick cross-reference confirmed her address at a downtown condominium. He’d seen Garrett going into the building on more than one occasion, presumably for a booty call.

And it was Saturday night, so…

Clint made his decision, taking Spokane Falls Boulevard. He wended his way through traffic, watching for Garrett’s car somewhere ahead of him, but didn’t see it. When he reached the block where Miss Kennedy lived, he slowed and trolled along the nearby streets, searching for Garrett’s car.

It was nowhere to be found.

He kept looking for another twenty minutes, but after crisscrossing the three-block radius multiple times, he came up empty.

Clint pulled into a vacant metered slot. He didn’t bother to put any coins in the meter. No one would ticket a police car, at least not with him sitting in it.

He stared at the condo building up the street. Tiana Kennedy lived on the sixth floor. Clint counted upward and then tried to imagine the layout of the floor. Did she have a city view or a river view? He saw four sets of windows facing the city side. Two were darkened. One was dimly lit with a television. The fourth was bright. Was one of those hers? Or was he looking at the wrong side of the building? He’d have to pull up the building plans tomorrow when he was at his desk and find out.

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