Shadows in the Night by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Edward Fillmore was an exceptional boss.

In many ways—although he was less on the slightly crazy academic side—he reminded her of Henry Tomlinson.

They were both decent men. Not on-a-pedestal wonderful; they had their moments. But they were both good people. Or, rather, Henry had been good until his unfair and untimely end.

Edward had founded his company years earlier. They handled private investigations, such as finding lost family members, searching for missing children and were certainly happy to participate in any “silver” alert, as well. He seldom took on divorce cases in which one spouse was trying to trap the other. In fact, he’d only take on such a case if he met with someone he saw as an injured party first, and then only if it meant getting suitable support for any children who might be affected.

When Harley had first gone to work for him, he’d told her to feel free to use her own time and whatever resources the company had to look into Henry’s death. She’d never used work hours—say, when she was tracking down a credit card report or some lead on a missing person—to pursue her own investigation. But she’d accepted his offer, although she hadn’t come up with anything yet. Henry was gone, had been cremated. And there was no lead to follow; it was all a stone wall. It was somewhat comforting to know that the FBI had encountered the same stone wall. No one had been able to crack the defenses established when the Amenmose expedition had ended, Henry had died and they’d all left the site.

Now, of course, she had a new crime to pursue—the poisoning of Vivian Richter.

She called Edward Fillmore and asked if she might have his blessing to head into the offices and search through info on various people.

Edward was quick to allow her access to his computers and databases.

So Harley spent her Sunday morning going through everything she could find on everyone she knew—including her colleagues on the expedition, the people she’d never suspected. Her search yielded little.

Ned Richter had been a CEO with a pharmaceutical company for nine years before joining Alchemy, where he’d been in charge of “Exploration” for over a decade.

His work record was spotless. He’d graduated from Harvard.

He’d married Vivian Clifford, a graduate of Cornell, a decade ago. When not working, the couple loved to vacation in historic places, including Peru, Mexico, Egypt and Greece. The couple had no children, but seemed devoted to each other.

Arlo Hampton had no criminal record, not even a parking ticket. He’d received his doctorate in Egyptology from Brown. He’d been with Alchemy for nearly eight years and had been hired by Ned Richter.

She looked up Jensen next. He’d gone to NYU. He was a New Yorker through and through.

He had a ton of parking tickets.

Nothing else on him.

Roger Eastman had been arrested once; he’d been protesting commercial testing on animals.

He’d received probation.

Belinda had no parking tickets—she didn’t drive. She’d never been arrested. She’d been valedictorian of her high school class and had gone to Northwestern before arriving in New York for graduate work.

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