The Ivy Nash Thrillers: Books 4-6: Redemption Thriller Series 10-12 (Redemption Thriller Series Box Set) by John W. Mefford

Author:John W. Mefford [Mefford, John W.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Sugar Hill Press
Published: 2018-01-22T05:00:00+00:00

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Cristina and I had been working the phones, searching every foxhole on the Internet and brainstorming during the lulls. We’d been going at it for about ten hours. There were enough empty cracker wrappers, half-filled cups of coffee, and opened Coke cans spread across my desk to prove as much. And while we still had more of a theory on the connection between the victims of the fake kidnappings—what amounted to parental terrorism with a side of extortion—rather than cold, hard facts, our intense focus had paid at least some dividends.

Nancy Klein, the moody nurse at Zahera’s office, had been caught trying to sell patient data—Kelly had given up that information earlier. While I eagerly looked forward to quizzing Zahera further on why she’d kept her on staff, it had opened a mental window for me: all of the victim families used the same pediatric facility. Extracting data from a medical facility’s computer system was probably easy pickings for a seasoned hacker. The SAPD’s running assumption had long been that this fake-kidnapping crime spree was nothing more than a group of hackers looking to make fast cash. Whether they worked out of a fraternity house basement in Lincoln, Nebraska, or a shack in Mumbai, India, was anyone’s guess at the moment.

Realizing our theories needed multiple pillars of evidence to form even a modest foundation of a case, I put in two phone calls to Kelly to try to extract the name of the facility that had tried to buy the patient data from Nancy. In the first two conversations, she’d said that as much as she didn’t trust Nancy, she didn’t want to propagate the tension in the office. While I felt uncomfortable sharing the exact nature of our investigation or our theory, I did tell her that the families who had been victims had been torn apart, forced to give up their life’s savings. At the end of my second call, I finished it by saying, “Who’s to say the next victim might be a close friend, or maybe your sister?” She’d told me she had a sister with three adorable children, all under the age of ten.

Apparently, her conscience could only suffer so much. She finally turned over the name of the place to which Nancy was selling patient information: Stonebrook Pediatric Group. That was our first building block. The second one came a couple of hours later—Cristina found a nurse working at Stonebrook Pediatric Group with the last name of Klein. We stared at each other, shocked at the finding, then debated what it could mean. We volleyed questions and theories back and forth. At one point, Cristina suggested that Klein was a rather common name; the fact that a Nurse Klein worked at each office could just be a coincidence.

That supposition didn’t last long. I found a picture of a pediatric nurse, Lisa Klein, on the Stonebrook website. She looked just like Nancy with her toothy smile, her full cheeks, and her straw-colored hair. From there,

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