The Secrets We Bury by Mary Bush

Author:Mary Bush [Bush, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books

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The next morning was crazy, and though Val wanted to run with everything she discovered last night, she couldn’t right now. Four bodies had come in overnight and as Dr. Maddox worked on the autopsies, Val was called out to a crime scene at Regency Hotel on the waterfront. The maid found a man hanging from the shower head in the bathroom. Not very creative—he tied the bedsheet around his neck to do it.

And Gwen had her own case to attend to: a woman had been stabbed to death by another woman in her West Side home. A knife duel, it seemed. The winner would get the man; a drug dealer prize no one ever should have wanted.

Val read her report as she entered room 1404 at the Regency Hotel. The maid had vacuumed the rugs and changed the sheets before going out to her cart in the hallway to retrieve a bucket and scrub brushes to clean the bathroom. She entered the bathroom and immediately called the manager. The maid didn’t appear distraught as she spoke to police now. Evidently a naked guy swinging from the shower was not the most disturbing thing she’d found on her cleaning rounds.

Val peered into the shower. The chair that he used to stand on was kicked away inside the large walk-in stall and a suicide note was laid on the counter. No signs of foul play were found in the room and the surveillance camera showed no one other than this man going into the room. Open and shut, just how Val had liked them.

Val took photographs and thought if this guy were a couple of inches taller, he’d have had to find another way to do this. He only cleared the floor by that much. She then got on a chair herself and with the help of two officers, cut the man loose. There was no way she was untying the tightly wound sheet. She did a preliminary exam, reviewed lividity and rigor, then got a liver temperature. She estimated he had died between 2 and 4am.

“We can bag him to go,” she told one officer. Her cell phone chimed. She knew the sound. It was Detective Gavin. His text read:

Can you meet for lunch?

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