Raven by Skye Knizley

Author:Skye Knizley [Knizley, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vamptasy Publishing
Published: 2015-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

UNION PARK

BOSTON, MA. 5:42 A.M.

RAVEN AND ASPEN HAD RETURNED to the Lenox Hotel to find Kole once again pouring over the file and the evidence they’d collected thus far, which actually amounted to very little. After an effort to lecture Raven on proper police procedure, an argument that hadn’t gone well for her, she’d left and everyone had made an attempt to get some sleep.

It was now 5:42 a.m. and they stood in a loose semi-circle inside a line of yellow police tape. The tall, thin body of Father Caleb Walker had been found face down in a fountain less than an hour before. The lab technicians had pulled him out and he now lay on a white plastic sheet intended to catch any trace evidence that hadn’t sunk to the bottom of the shallow basin.

He’d bled out during the wee hours of the morning and his hair had been dyed pink from blood in the water. Like Monsignor Quinn, his throat had been cut and his tongue pulled through the pink-lipped slit in his neck.

Kole unfolded the photograph of Quinn’s high school class. After a moment she tapped the face of one of the surviving boys. “Here he is. Caleb Walker, member of both the chess team and the archaeology club.”

“Why didn’t we have protection on him?” Raven asked.

“We did,” one of the patrolmen said. “It’s the damndest thing. I turned my back to light a smoke and he was gone. By the time we found him, he was dead and two men were running toward the alley. My partner Bobbi gave chase while I called it in.”

“Where is Bobbi now?”

The patrolman pointed toward a blonde female officer sitting on a bench about twenty feet away.

“See what you two can do with the vic,” Raven said. “I’m going to talk to Bobbi.”

“Aye, aye, Captain,” Aspen said.

“Shouldn’t I go with you?” Kole asked.

Raven shook her head. “No. Put that nose of yours to use, I smell something I can’t place. I’ll be right back.”

The female officer sat on the bench, a distant look in her eyes. Her cap was missing and her business-like bun had come loose, spilling golden-blonde hair over her shoulders. She also had a bloody, tattered piece of cloth wrapped around her hand. Whatever had happened, she hadn’t given up easily.

“Bobbi?” Raven asked.

The officer blinked and looked up at her. “Yes, ma’am?”

Raven sat beside her. “Your partner says you gave chase to a pair of potential suspects in Walker’s murder, can you tell me what happened?”

“Yes, ma’am,” Bobbi said. “Joey was escorting Father Walker on his stroll through the park, I was waiting in the patrol car for them to come out on the far side. About ten minutes into their walk, Joey called in and said he’d lost Walker. I radioed for backup and entered the park. I found Father Walker in the fountain, he was already bleeding out. At about the same time I spotted two men in black running north toward Tremont Street. I called it in and chased them out of the park.

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