The Sins of the Father (A Dead Cold Mystery Book 5) by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-12T23:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

The next morning it was drizzling from a low ceiling of heavy cloud. Dehan was waiting in the doorway of her apartment block and dodged across the road when she saw me coming. She climbed in and slammed the door as I pulled back into the traffic. I tried out a smile.

“How was your evening?”

She shrugged. “How did it go with Elizabeth Cavendish?”

“It is quite a story.”

She listened in silence as I recounted it. When I had finished, she said, “So what are you thinking? It kind of supports what we were saying yesterday.”

“On the face of it.” I threw her a smile. “Prima facie.” She didn’t respond. I went on. “So I am thinking I need to break Paul down and get the truth out of him. At the same time, I think I would like a warrant to search the church, the rectory, and the grounds.”

“What about Sylvie?”

I shook my head. “Right now, trying to talk to Sylvie is a waste of time. She’ll just keep seeking refuge in her supposed amnesia. I think she has almost come to believe it herself. No, we need to appeal to Paul’s self-interest. Not Reverend Truelove, but the real Paul, the amoral Amazonian adventurer.”

She cocked her head on one side. “He sounds like a man who’d go a long way to protect his son.”

“Up to a point, you’re right. But he has a pretty warped sense of what protection means, hasn’t he? He did risk his own life to get him out of Brazil, but wouldn’t risk his business deal to protect his son from a bully.”

She turned away and gazed out the window at the wet people hunched under their umbrellas, jostling each other on the passing sidewalk.

“True.”

After a bit, I asked her, “You alright?”

She looked surprised, but didn’t smile. “Sure. Why wouldn’t I be?”

“I don’t know. You seem distracted.”

“I’m fine.”

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