Sex and Murder.com by Mark Richard Zubro

Author:Mark Richard Zubro [Zubro, Mark Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Chicago, detective, gay, mystery, police procedural
ISBN: 9780312287191
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2001-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Brenda Darium was nearly six feet tall. She wore dark blue jeans, a heavy beige sweater, and a down winter coat.

She said, “There was a news flash on the radio that something had happened to my brother.”

Turner and Fenwick found a quiet corner and sat down with her. Turner said, “I’m sorry, Ms. Darium, your brother is dead.”

She wept. “This is so hard,” she whispered after gaining some modicum of control. She dabbed at her tears with tissue she took from her purse. “How did?” She gasped and drew a deep breath. “What happened?”

“I’m afraid he was murdered,” Turner said.

“My god! Just like Craig Lenzati. What is happening?”

“We’re not sure, Ms. Darium,” Turner said. “If you could answer a few questions, you might be able to help us find the killer.”

She continued speaking as if she had not heard him. “My mother is quite ill, but she is still lucid. This is going to be toughest on her. She doted on him. I told him he needed to be more careful.”

“More careful about what?” Turner asked.

“That stupid, silly sex game he played with Craig Lenzati. I told him it would lead to trouble. He wouldn’t listen to me.”

“What was the game?” Fenwick asked.

She heaved a deep sigh. “The two of them had an extremely hard time growing up. They were picked on unmercifully for being such nerds.” She gulped. “Well, they were nerds. Brooks was three years older than I was, but I still found him embarrassing. I never brought friends home. Craig Lenzati was pure evil from the time I met him as a child.”

“How was he pure evil?” Turner asked.

“He didn’t hurt little puppies or anything. He just wasn’t right. You just knew something was awfully odd about him. I didn’t like him.”

“How much did you know about this game?”

“My brother and I weren’t very close growing up, but after he went away to college he started to open up. I was the first one he told he was gay, even before he told that slime bucket Lenzati. I loved him and our bond grew over time. As for that stupid game, I’m not sure what it was all about. He bragged to me about it in this kind of obscure way, but he never gave me details. I knew it was about sex, I knew it was about money, and I knew it sounded dangerous and stupid. I warned him and warned him. Paying strangers for sex was a wide-open invitation to violence. One time I asked him if he was ever going to settle down. In his whole life he never actually dated anyone seriously. His longest relationship lasted less than three months, which was probably longer than any Craig Lenzati ever had.”

Turner said, “Among the items we found on Mr. Lenzati’s computer was a coded list.” Turner showed her the printout Dylan Micetic had given them. Brenda Darium barely glanced at it. Turner said, “It’s in a code that our computer people have managed to break some of.

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