Relative Malice by Marla Madison

Author:Marla Madison
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Tags: mystery & thriller
ISBN: 1481960482
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2013-02-06T06:00:00+00:00

23

Kendall and Nash were on the road back to Eau Claire when TJ called. Kendall was driving and handed her phone to Nash.

“Adam Nashlund here. I’m with Detective Halsrud. “

If TJ was surprised Kendall had a partner, she kept it to herself. “I took a drive out to Waukesha myself. Your lady chickenhawk flew the coop about six months ago. I’m in her place now, lower flat in a duplex. The landlady let me in. It hasn’t been rented yet, so thought I’d take a look around. Place is spotless, an’ she didn’t’ leave no forwarding address. Sorry I couldn’t get more for you.”

“That’s too bad, but thanks, you’ve saved us another four hours on the road.”

“Went through the brother’s place, too. Nothing there, either.”

Nash straightened in his seat. “Her brother?”

“Landlady forgot to mention him. I talked to a neighbor on my way out and she told me about him. He lived in the upper. Said she thought he was handicapped, hardly ever left the house an’ never talked to anyone.”

When Nash started swearing, Kendall asked, “What?” He raised a hand to quiet her.

“TJ, can you get a description of this pair and call me back?”

“I’m on it.”

Muttering to himself, he closed the phone.

“What’s happening?” Kendall asked.

He repeated what TJ had told him. “I have a bad feeling this Clemmons and her so-called ‘brother’ might be Jennemen and Iseroth, the old bat I talked to in Cameron and her renter. It’s not unusual for these sickos to move around like nomads, trying to escape the registry.”

TJ called back minutes later.

After he closed the phone, he slammed a hand on the dashboard. “Fuck!”

“Tell me.”

“I should have figured it out. The descriptions fit. Jennemen must have been claiming Iseroth as her brother when she lived in Waukesha as Clemmons. She totally duped me. Did a great job of acting like a wacky old lady.”

Kendall felt her intestines roiling again. She didn’t ask if he was sure; it made an ugly kind of sense. “We can be in Cameron by nine.”

“It’ll be too fucking late. They’ll be gone.”

“Quit beating up on yourself. You couldn’t have known.”

“Damn. I should have asked the mail guy how long they’d been there. We can’t have them picked up without solid evidence. We’re screwed.”

“But you said their places were too small to hide a baby,” Kendall said.

“I know. But there’s a vacant cottage next to Iseroth. Like a moron, I didn’t ask her to show it to me.”

“Maybe we can get enough on this group to interest the Feds,” she said. “With Traynor in Minnesota, our pervs are in two states—it does become their jurisdiction.”

“I hate giving the fucking Feds anything.”

Kendall called the Cameron police. The officer on duty agreed to cover Jennemen’s place until they got there.

They stopped at Kendall’s apartment for coffee on their way to Cameron. Kendall found a note from Brynn next to her computer.

“It says she went on a group astronomy walk and won’t be back until about eleven. And she needs a better computer.

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