SLEEPING DOGS (Animal Instincts Book 6) by Chloe Kendrick

Author:Chloe Kendrick [Kendrick, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

I left feeling entirely out of sorts, about this case and personally too. This man had shot down my entire theory of the crime. If he’d delivered a package to the maid at a few minutes before 7pm, then there was no way that Susan could have seen the murder an hour earlier. So what had happened at that time to make Susan leave town? I wasn’t even sure anymore that the two crimes were related. Was I just spinning my wheels in hoping to connect the two cases? My premise had been a chronological connection. Susan had begun to call the bus station the day after the murder. It seemed inconceivable that the two things were not connected. It would take a huge event to make a 13 year old girl want to leave her home and family. Murder seemed the most likely event, seeing a murder and running away seemed even more likely. I thought about where I could have gone wrong. Susan couldn’t have been at the scene of the crime at 7pm, which meant she saw nothing. If she saw nothing, then perhaps the two crimes were unrelated.

I wondered if I’d gotten so used to solving crimes in my life that I saw everything as a crime. The old story of everything looks like a nail when you’re a hammer. Of course, dating a detective only served to make the situation worse. I wondered what Sheila was doing right now. She was likely busy with her own cases, and not in a place where she could listen to me talk about a cold case. I would have to wait for a better time.

Then Mr. Xanthus had known my mother. How exactly did a deliveryman meet people like that? I didn’t remember getting many packages from any delivery services. So I wasn’t sure what he could have been referring to? Had he perhaps talked to my mother about the Frias case? I had more questions than answers still.

There was still the missing interview. I wondered if perhaps Sheila could help me locate information on the ubiquitous Mr. Jones. I called and surprisingly she answered. “What’s up?” she asked, not bothering with any type of real greeting. I wondered if that was just her manner or if she was hiding my identity from her colleagues.

“I need some help. There’s a Robert Jones listed as a missing interview on the police file for the murder investigation. I was wondering if you could find him for me? Google isn’t any help at all on this one.”

She laughed. “Sure. I’ll do it when I get back to the office. I’m out in the field at the moment. How goes things with that case?”

I told her about Xanthus and how he’d shot my theory down without knowing it. “I’m lost at the moment.”

“When your theory doesn’t fit the facts, then you need to change the theory. Just because you like a theory doesn’t mean it’s right. Let go of that, and you’ll be able to come up with the right solution.

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