Spiked by Randall Denley

Author:Randall Denley [Denley, Randall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988437187
Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing
Published: 2019-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SEVEN

It was just after 1 p.m. by the time Reilly got back to the Major Crimes squad room at police headquarters on Elgin Street. The room was empty, except for the usual stacked up cardboard boxes and squeezed-in desks. His squad had too few people to do the job, but too many to fit into the space. Right now, the other detectives were out working cases, or maybe just at lunch. Not everyone was as work obsessed as Reilly.

He had said that he was taking the morning to pursue a lead, without specifying the case. He was glad there was no one there to quiz him about it. With his workload, there was no way to justify his personal Mae Wang crusade, but hopefully he wouldn’t have to.

When you were the staff sergeant in charge, you had quite a bit of latitude, but his inspector still expected results. Larry Ferguson was a decent guy, but he was one of the many Ottawa officers with acting-rank status. Ferguson had to make his mark if he wanted permanent promotion and it had made him obsessed with stats. Right now, the squad’s stats weren’t good. Ottawa already had eight homicides for the year and five were unsolved. Reilly was carrying three personally, all Somalis, all involved with the drug trade and in every case, no one was willing to come forward with information. That was understandable. Ratting out a drug gang member who had already committed homicide could be a life-shortening experience. It made his job difficult, though. Most days, he felt like he was pushing three big rocks up a very steep hill.

Reilly settled in behind his desk and fired up his computer. His inbox was jammed. He seemed to spend half his life sending case updates in all directions to create the illusion of progress. Sometimes that seemed harder than progress itself.

At least the drive out to see Farrell had not been the wild good chase that Reilly had feared. Farrell sounded like he was still well plugged in. Reilly wondered exactly what kind of hairy shit Farrell did for a living these days. Judging by the armaments he had on display, it didn’t just involve putting on a suit and advising corporations about computer security. Reilly was sure that what he could see in the gun case was just a fraction of Farrell’s personal armoury. The really good stuff would be kept well out of sight, although probably not far out of reach.

He hoped that Farrell would produce some results, because the case wasn’t getting much traction despite Kris’s efforts. It was frustrating not to know who Mae Wang actually was and how she fit into the big picture. For that matter, what was the big picture?

The case kept coming back to Luc Champagne. The fact that Champagne was showing up at the building on Tuesday nights and Mae Wang almost certainly stayed in that same building Tuesday nights was extremely unlikely to be a coincidence. What was Mae’s connection

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