The Truth by E.A. House

Author:E.A. House
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2018-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

Agent Michelle Grey had lost her eye in the process of taking down an illegal parrot-smuggling operation running out of Cleveland, Ohio. She’d been a very young cop at the time, and the animal control officer who’d been on the case as well had taken her under her wing; one of the woman’s favorite bits of advice was, “It can always get weirder.” Michelle had argued, from her hospital bed, that there were few things weirder than losing an eye in a parrot-smuggling case. June had dropped a bag of foil-wrapped chocolate eyeballs on Michelle’s bed and shook her head.

“Someday, you’re going to look back on this case and think, ‘Wow, that was actually one of the least complicated cases I’ve ever worked,’ and it will be true,” she had said. “You can’t see it now, but this case this early on in your career is doing you a huge favor. The higher your tolerance level for weirdness, the better you’ll be at finding the actual case under the . . .” She had trailed off thoughtfully.

“Parrots?” Michelle had offered.

“Exactly,” June had said. “Want an eyeball?”

June had been right, although it had taken Michelle years to learn the truth of her words and how scant a comfort that advice could be. Just because she wasn’t fazed by a formerly cold murder case with possible supernatural elements and way too many players didn’t mean she wanted to deal with it!

Unfortunately, life never asked if you wanted to deal with formerly cold murder cases with possible supernatural elements and way too many players, it just threw them at you and left.

“Somebody tried to break into Griffin’s house,” Michelle said, head in her hands. Detective Hermann looked just as bewildered-edging-into-​exasperated as she did.

“Yes,” he said miserably, “and that person was Robin Redd. Or, well, we caught him in the flower beds, so we can’t exactly prove that he was aiming to get inside the house. He might have been in the midst of leaving, or just admiring the moon and not looking where he was going.”

“Admiring the moon and not looking where he was going?”

“That would be the explanation he gave the officer who caught him in the flower beds,” Detective Hermann sighed. “And, unfortunately, as far as it goes his story checks out. The moon is nearly full tonight and there’s no cloud cover, and the woman who came to get him told us he does wander around admiring the moon at night.”

“I see,” Michelle said. It had been a day of strange developments in the case: first there had been the discovery of The Vanishing Triangle, deliberately washed up on the beach and with the treasured submersible safely tucked away out of danger; then Officer Carson had reported someone trying to break into Elsie Kingsolver’s house; and then Forrest had finished his digging and come to the alarming conclusion that everyone who’d handled the disappearance of Ryan Moore had since managed to expire.

Michelle knew she was looking at one murder committed

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