Operation Rubicon by Preston William Child

Author:Preston William Child
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

NINA CALLED THE POLICE, and they arrived quickly with an ambulance, not that the ambulance could do much good for Santino. They should have come with a hearse instead. She explained how she found the body and told them that she read the letter just so they weren't wondering why her fingerprints were all over the paper.

As they were putting together the crime scene, a man came strolling up to Nina with an unusual gape in his steps. He was a middle aged man with long hair tied back into a tight ponytail and a black beard was neatly trimmed along his jaw line. He pulled out a very small notebook and started scribbling in it.

“Dr. Nina Gould,” the newcomer said without looking up from where he was scrawling in his little book. “That’s your name, yes?”

“Yes, it is.”

He lowered the notepad for a moment and gave an uncomfortably thin smile that had no real warmth to it. “It's a pleasure to meet you. I’m Inspector Donatello Amaro. I just have some questions that I’d like to ask you about this mess.” He returned his attention back to his notepad and got his pen ready.

Nina nodded. She’d been honest enough with the police so far, and was going to continue cooperating. She’d tell them any of the necessary information they wanted without getting into the Order of the Black Sun or anything that they didn't need to know.

“I’ll happily share whatever you require.

“Fantastic, this may take a minute or two.”

They sat at one of the visitor benches in the museum's lobby. He took a seat right beside her, still focused on his notebook and ready to start writing.

“So what would you like to know--”

She barely had a chance to finish her sentence before the questions started to rain down on her like a flurry of arrows.

“What were you doing here hours before the museum opens?”

“Santino asked me to meet him here this morning. I guess he wanted to talk before employees and visitors arrived.”

“A private conversation then,” the inspector said, mostly to himself and still writing furiously in his notepad, jotting down word after word without pause. He must have been transcribing their conversation as they talked. “What was your relationship with the victim?”

“Santino,” Nina said firmly. She didn't like how Santino was suddenly nameless in the eyes of the police now that he wasn't breathing. “His name was Santino Rossi.”

Inspector Amaro looked up from his chicken scratch and looked a bit irritated, but offered another thin, disingenuous smile. “My apologies, of course. My question still stands.”

He didn't even try to correct himself. Nina didn't like this strange detective but she knew that not cooperating would only make her look bad. It already looked bad enough that she was there with the body in the museum before the museum had even opened. She didn't need to pile anymore suspicion onto herself.

“Santino and I have known each other for years. We both run—ran—in the same circles of historical societies. But we weren't close.

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