Perilous Pursuit: A gripping crime thriller (Shadows of Deception - Book 2) by Clara Lewis

Author:Clara Lewis [Lewis, Clara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Captain Bennett was restless after the laboratory sent in the results on the farm samples to him early in the morning. Then, the chief laboratory scientist finally called him at the break of dawn to reveal the results to him.

“They are all negative,” the voice on the other side of the phone had said.

The captain was jolted from sleep, and he became agitated. Although he was not a pessimist, he had expected positive results when he answered the phone

“Negative?” he asked the scientist again.

“Yes, all of them. I ran the test myself and painstakingly went through them with my team through the night. There is no poison in any of the samples.”

Later with Detective Martin, the captain was curious why things had not gone as they had expected.

"If all the samples tested negative, where did the poison come from?" Captain Bennett asked Detective Martin, who had come to the station after captain called him.

“We have to find out,” the detective replied.

“Yes. We have to, and very fast, too, before the suspects will know how far we have gone,” the captain said.

The detective nodded as he peeped into the eyes of the captain, who had become worried that he had no grip on this case. The captain looked through the file containing the test results, which cleared the farms of any poisoning in their produce.

“I have to call the farms to let them know they are in the clear for now,” the captain said to the detective.

“I also think they should still keep sealed lips over the whole situation,” the detective advised.

The captain made the calls, informed each farm of the findings, and advised them not to divulge the information. It was a decision that benefitted the police investigation and protected the farms' business interests. They agreed and promised their cooperation.

As the captain talked on the phone to the farmers, Detective Martin listened to the conversation for a while before allowing his mind to wander. The atmosphere at the precinct was tense, and one could cut it with a knife. The detective thought of the possibilities available to them in finding suspects. There was no suspect and no clue and no motive. All they had were similar deaths with nothing to link them.

The detective was uneasy about the seeming inability to crack a case that he once thought to be open and close. He recalled the evidence against Ivan King. It was solid and direct. He was the chef, and his fingerprints were on the cans of spices which contained potassium chloride, which he had been adding to Glen Foster's meals.

But the chef had denied everything and claimed not to know about the existence of the salt-like chemical in his kitchen. Detective Martin did not believe him, but Mr. King’s sudden death and the revelation of his relationship with Mr. Foster had swayed him now to have a second thought.

He wanted to find Mr. Foster's real killers, which might help him understand why Mr. King kept a strangely low profile in his son-in-law's home.

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