The Old Blue Line by J. A. Jance

Author:J. A. Jance
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

THE NEXT FEW days passed in a blur. Just as Charlie Rickover had predicted, once Harold pointed Jamison and Shandrow in the right direction, they ran with it. The woman named Marina Ochoa never came back to clean my apartment. She and Jeffrey Jones were arrested the following Wednesday. They fought extradition, but it didn’t work, despite the fact that they had hired a high profile defense guy from California. It wasn’t a surprise that Jeffrey suddenly had to liquidate his real estate holdings in order to pony up attorney’s fees.

Life seemed to get back to normal at the Roundhouse Bar and Grill. I hired a new cleaning lady—­the sister-­in-­law of one of my dishwashers. (No, Helena isn’t an illegal, and her English is just fine, thank you very much.)

After jumping through all kinds of hoops, I finally got my Honda sedan back, and wished I hadn’t. The bloody bat had been found in the trunk, almost in plain sight, but the CSIs had torn the whole interior of the car to pieces looking for trace evidence. The car was already old before that happened. When the insurance adjustor looked at it, he shook his head, said it was totaled, and gave me a check that was just enough to buy myself a slightly used Honda Gold Wing.

Shortly after that, a new batch of police officer recruits turned up at the police academy next door. One day a ­couple of weeks later my life changed forever when a little red-­haired ball of fire named Joanna Brady—­the newly minted Sheriff of Cochise County—­marched into the Roundhouse, stepped up to my bar, and ordered herself a Diet Coke.

While attending the academy, she was also in the process of looking out for some poor guy from Douglas, a guy name Jorge, who was about to be given the shaft.

As soon as I met her, I was done for. She may have been a lot slower to come around, but as far as I was concerned, it was love at first sight. The fact that she went out on a limb to bail Jorge out of a pot of hot water didn’t hurt things, either, at least not for me. Having recently been bailed out of my own pot of hot water, that was one thing about her that I really appreciated.

But what is it they say about once burned, twice shy? I had fallen head over heels once before, and I was determined that if Joanna was the one for me, I was going to take things slow and easy. I could see that she liked me—­at least I thought she did—­but that was about as far as things went before she finished up her academy training and went back home to Bisbee.

That’s when my life took another unexpected turn. In the middle of December a guy named Clark Ashton showed up at the Roundhouse with an offer to buy me out. He had bought up all of Jeffrey Jones’s properties as well

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