The Professor by Cathy Perkins

Author:Cathy Perkins
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Thrillers, Fiction, Suspense, ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
ISBN: 9781426893117
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-01-22T22:00:00+00:00

Mick dropped the phone back into the cradle and crossed off another car record. This was the part they never showed on television. The boring grind. Endless telephone conversations. Massive piles of paperwork. For days, city and sheriff’s officers had checked Camaros with Dark Carmine Red carpet. Cars owned and driven by women, old men, Hispanics. Cars that no longer ran. Cars whose male owners had solid alibis.

None of the owners was the killer.

“Damn.” He stared at the database table. Most of the original list had been processed. Discouragement hovered like a dark cloud. He could feel the case slipping away. How many clues had they missed? Was someone else going to die while they were stumbling around?

He recognized the self-defeatist attitude. Recognizing it and pulling out of it were two different things. He had to stay focused—catch the killer—but their leads kept wandering into mazes full of blank walls and dead ends.

Frank threw his pen onto his desk and stretched. “What do we do now?”

“The damn car has to be somewhere. We’ll go back to the DMV and get all the Camaros in the state.”

“I was afraid you were going to say that.”

He scrubbed his hands over his face. The case was settling into one of those inevitable lulls. Waiting mode: waiting on paperwork, DNA results, car reports, bar interviews. After the new Camaro list arrived, he’d have to wait on VIN details. He’d be happy for something credible off the tip line.

Basically, he was waiting for a break that might never come.

He pushed the pessimism aside. He wanted to be out in the field rather than the one everybody fed information. Information that so far didn’t amount to a hill of beans.

He shoved his chair away from his desk. “I’ve got to get out of here for a while.”

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