Payback in Death by Robb J. D

Author:Robb, J. D. [Robb, J. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Romance, Crime, Suspense, thriller, Science Fiction
Amazon: B0BQGJ182N
Goodreads: 75260734
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2023-09-05T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

That, Eve thought, was one way to do it.

Without waiting for an invitation, she sat in one of the fake leather chairs facing the desk.

“You blame Captain Greenleaf for your daughter’s death?”

“He contributed. He could have recommended disciplinary action, retraining, psychiatric and mental health assistance. But he didn’t, and he wouldn’t. And Whitney, who’d barely sat his ass down in the commander’s chair, wouldn’t stand up for one of his own. Neither would her supervising officer. Nobody stood up for her.”

“She broke a minor child’s arm, failed to call for medical assistance, and threatened to do more physical harm. It wasn’t her first use of excessive force on the job.”

“And whose fault was it for not pulling her off the street the first time, or the second? They barely slapped her wrist for it when she should’ve been pulled back, retrained, and given counseling. Let me add that minor child had a history of shoplifting, truancy, and resisting.”

Eve couldn’t argue with the first part, not when she wholeheartedly agreed. But the second? “Do you think his history justified your daughter’s use of excessive force?”

“No.” The anger simply drained out of him. “And I told her exactly that. In the end, I didn’t stand for her, either, so she took my service weapon out of the lockbox and killed herself with it.”

“It’s a terrible loss, Mr. Lord,” Peabody began. “But you did stand for her. You went to the commander, to the captain of IAB, to her supervising officer.”

“A lot of good it did me, or her. Greenleaf held a hard line. And the media and cop bashers were all over it because of the vid.”

“Because of the vid,” Eve interrupted, “or because of your daughter’s actions?”

“She was wrong. Jesus Christ, I was on the job for twenty-seven years, I know she was wrong. She needed a chance to get right, and no one gave it to her. Greenleaf, he had twelve years, four months, and ten days living after she died. I’m not complaining his time came up.”

“Where were you on the night he was killed, between twenty and twenty-two hundred hours?”

“You saw the guy who just left? He hired me to check on his wife of not quite three years. She told him she’d signed up for some night classes, boost her chances of a promotion at work. Keeping it short, he got suspicious, hired me three days ago.

“It took me one night—supposedly her night-class night, Greenleaf’s night. I staked out her apartment building, watched her come out and meet up with a male—Caucasian, brown and brown, about thirty. They got handsy right off.”

Lord shook his head. “Not ten steps out of the building where she lives with her husband, and they’re all over each other. They got into a cab. I tailed them a few blocks to what turned out to be his place. I got a clear enough shot of him to get an ID—I’ve got damn good equipment. Turns out they work together. So I sat on his building, and watched them come out on his balcony.

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