Rabbit Trick: A Mindspace Investigations Novella by Alex Hughes

Author:Alex Hughes [Hughes, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ScreamQueen
Amazon: B00ISVHH4K
Publisher: Alex Hughes
Published: 2014-03-04T06:00:00+00:00

“The killer was definitely a professional,” Cherabino said, over a huge container of pasta in the department break room that night. “He’s been linked to at least six other cases in the metro area.” Day shift was over, and we’d ordered Italian takeout. Or, more accurately, I’d ordered it for us both, the good stuff, the expensive stuff with real meat. It was heaven on a plate.

“How did Bull meet him?” I asked. “I mean, you don’t get a list of hired killers when you join the department.” I tried again to cut the osso bucco with the plastic knife without tearing the cardboard box it had come in. I managed one, small, strip of meat and sighed.

Cherabino finished chewing and shrugged. “Guess he knew a snitch with a connection. We’ll find the hired gun eventually.”

I speared a roasted potato wedge with the plastic fork. When it fell off, speared it again, more carefully. “I still can’t get over the fact that he hired someone else to kill her. I mean, I get it. Someone leaves you, you’re angry. I’ve been there. But killing the woman? Or, that whole extra step of getting someone else to do it? How do you get that far down the road?”

She looked down at her plate, sadness, pain and cynicism mixing around in her head. “It’s a damn stupid thing to do. I went to academy with that guy – I didn’t think he could…” She trailed off. “What was his secret?”

I was silent.

“You’re not going to tell me, are you?”

“Compared to murder, it doesn’t matter,” I said.

“I guess you never really know someone.” She looked sad, incredibly sad in that moment, and the emotions inside her cut through me like a one-two punch. Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything…

“There’s one garlic roll left,” I told her, desperately. “It’s yours if you want it.” I pushed the cardboard container towards her.

She took the roll, and started talking about another case. This one about industrial sabotage. I listened carefully and asked lots of questions. And slowly, like the release of a long-held tension, her mind calmed.

I looked up as Paulsen came in the door. “Oh, good,” she said with a smile. “You’re still here.”

I ate another potato with dogged determination. If I was going to be working a double, I’d need the energy.

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