Scottsdale Silence: a fun, romantic, thrilling, adventure... (Laura Black Mysteries Book 9) by B A Trimmer

Author:B A Trimmer [Trimmer, B A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saguaro Sky Media Co.
Published: 2021-05-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I disconnected with Maggie and went back to Sophie’s desk.

“I keep hitting dead ends on the blackmail ring,” I said. “I was thinking, maybe I should approach it from a different angle.”

“How so?” she asked.

“When the creeps had me in their torture chamber, a woman came in. She seemed to be in charge of the operation. I’m sure I’ve seen her somewhere before.”

“Any idea where? Is she from the Black Death?”

“I don’t think so. It was from somewhere more recent.”

“Do you think she’s another doctor? Everyone we’ve dealt with so far is on the senior staff at Scottsdale General.”

“Maybe, but I wouldn’t think one doctor would be blackmailing another one. It doesn’t seem very doctor-like.”

“There’s one way to find out,” Sophie said as she pulled up the website for the hospital. “Let’s take a look.”

I stood next to Sophie as she brought up the page for the executive staff. By now, it looked like a who’s who of my life over the past week.

I quickly scanned down the list and stopped when I saw a smiling picture of the woman who had come into the room to both stop my torture and order my death.

Damn.

“It’s her,” I said, pointing to the screen. “In this picture she looks a lot nicer, but it’s the same woman.”

“Lillian Abbot,” Sophie read. “I don’t think she’s a doctor. The letters after her name are CSCP. She’s the Director of Supply Chain, whatever that means.”

“I think it means she’s in charge of everything the hospital buys.”

“Oh, that sounds reasonable. I can see a hospital buying a lot of stuff. Still, why would she want to blackmail the rest of the executive staff?”

“I don’t know, but I’d love to find out,” I said. “Could you do a deep dive on her with the secret software?”

“I figured. I’ll run the standard checks at the same time. Since she ordered you dead, we should probably find out what her deal is.”

“There was also the jerk who kept jolting me with his pink stun-gun. Lillian called him Benny.”

“I’ll see what I can find out. I don’t suppose you have a last name or a license plate, anything like that?”

“Unfortunately, I was too busy trying to escape with my life.”

“Yeah, I suppose that would keep your mind preoccupied.”

I then got another thought. “Is it possible to run a search on the hospital itself? Maybe it’s not one specific person?”

“I don’t see why not. I’ll run the standard searches on it, then I’ll ask the secret software. I’ll let you know when I get everything back.”

“Most of the top people at the hospital seem to be involved in whatever is going on. They’re either involved in running it or being blackmailed because of it. If we’re going to narrow this down, it might be easier to find out who’s not involved.”

“Well, the only top person who doesn’t seem to be tangled up with anything yet is the head of the hospital.”

“Who’s that?”

“It’s J. Barrett Knight,” Sophie said as she pointed to the top picture on the web page.

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