The Dirty Game - Long Time Dying Private Investigator Crime Thriller series, book 9 (Long Time Dying Series) by Solomon Carter

Author:Solomon Carter [Carter, Solomon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Great Leap
Published: 2015-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

Thoughts of Eva kept Dan’s brain churning as he went about his work that morning. They were thoughts of two kinds. The memory of her body, the softness of her skin, her supple hips in his hands, and her kisses that melted him and set him afire at the same time… Then there was the curious silence which had suddenly crept up between them. Maybe silence wasn’t the right word, because they had been anything but quiet in the intimate moments they’d shared of late. But there was something, and he couldn’t put his finger on it. Yep, the old gut feeling again. Something was on Eva’s mind, unseen, unspoken. It bothered him but he had to wait a while before he’d risk challenging her on it. Things were so good between them right now, he didn’t want to blow it by making a mistake.

Being an independent private detective made work very enjoyable sometimes. Yes, there was the Laura case. But Dan was enjoying a silver lining morning. Recalling late night fun while sipping on a Grande medium roast, Dan reclined in Starbucks looking all the world like a dilettante. Only the tiny scars across his face, the scab on his head from the Russian hit girl, and his missing pinky finger spoilt the effect. Dan wasn’t self-aware. He thought nothing of his blemishes, while to most people who noticed him Dan could have been a cage fighter from the local Mixed Martial Arts fight club, or a boxer fresh from a bout. The coffee tasted good, and the iPad gave him updates on the crime war in London which was all set to explode in between forays of research into John Balfour. He learned another detective, DCI Walton had been assigned the John Balfour case. Walton was someone he’d not met, and Dan had no plans to do so. One rotten copper was enough for now. He kept digging. He wasn’t giving up until he had something new on John Balfour, something which worked and led him somewhere else. But it wasn’t coming quickly.

It was pretty standard stuff about a man from a broken home with a tortured soul who went on to brutally torture and kill the prostitute Rhiannon Calderwood in the late nineties as a way to salve his own wounds. Utter tosh. It was the psychobabble the national dailies and the local rag printed in the nineties just to sell more papers. It did nothing to help anyone. Balfour had been an archetypal scumbag no matter which way you cut it, and he had done what scumbags do – hurt people. Dan skirted the rest of the media melodrama about the killer’s life, and then started drilling down to the simple facts. The facts always led you somewhere. Gut feelings were helpful - they’d helped Dan fix cases more often than he could remember, but gut feelings were always built on solid foundations.

There weren’t many facts to find. The date of the murder. Check. The method of killing.

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