One Last Breath by Laura Griffin

Author:Laura Griffin [Griffin, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Contemporary, Mystery, Thriller, Adult
ISBN: 9781416537373
Google: NqPCT48rvDoC
Amazon: 1416537376
Barnesnoble: 1416537376
Goodreads: 145538
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2007-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Juarez had spent two solid hours on the phone when Teresa stuck her head into his office.

“I’m going to lunch,” she said. “Can I pick you up a sandwich or something?”

He glanced at his watch. Nearly one o’clock already, and he was still running down a background check on this Ruiz, who’d supposedly done time in Sugar Land. He hoped like hell he wasn’t going to have to drive up to the prison. He needed to stick around and keep tabs on Feenie.

“No, thanks,” he said. “Hey, my friend at the FBI didn’t call, did he?”

“You were on the phone. I put the message right there on your desk.”

The pink message slip was under his coffee cup. “Shit, I knew it,” he muttered, reading it. NIBIN, the nationwide forensic firearms identification database, had linked the bullets from the Martinez and the Doring shootings. The murders were committed with the same weapon, which meant most likely the same killer.

“Did you ever call Wainwright back?” Teresa asked. “He’s getting really impatient about that workers comp case. And that insurance company in Corpus called again this morning. They need an update from you by five.”

“Huh?” Juarez looked up. Teresa was wearing a worried frown, her default expression these days. He knew she was anxious about the chaotic state of the business, but there wasn’t much he could do about it at the moment. Lately, everything non-Paloma-related had taken a backseat. Sometime in the last week, he’d passed the point of caring about his other clients.

“Wainwright. And the insurance company. They both need to talk to you.”

“I’ll take care of it,” he said. “Hey, and I’m still waiting on the hot list from Corpus.” Juarez was having trouble tracking down that Blazer, so he’d asked Teresa to call Corpus PD for a list of recently stolen cars. He’d already checked San Antonio and Austin.

“I put it in your in box.”

“Right. Thanks.” He snatched it up and took a moment to give Teresa a reassuring smile. She was a good assistant. He’d been through two others before he’d managed to recruit her away from the Mayfield PD dispatch desk. He wondered if Feenie was right when she’d said Teresa was bored.

He looked down at his stack of neglected files. “Hey, you interested in taking the lead on this workers comp case for Wainwright?”

Her eyebrows shot up. “Me?”

“Yeah, I’m pretty buried. You could go through the paperwork, make a list of anything that raises a red flag, any inconsistencies you see.” He passed her the file. “If you think the claim’s fraudulent, we’ll come up with a game plan for getting proof.”

“Really?” She smiled broadly and took the folder. “I’d love to handle it. Actually, I’ve already skimmed through the file, so it shouldn’t take me long to come up to speed.”

“Great,” he said. “We’ll touch base later. Have a nice lunch.”

Teresa already had her nose in the file. She glanced up. “What? Oh. I think I’ll get started on this instead.”

Feenie had been right, apparently. The woman had good instincts about people, he had to admit.

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