The Reaper's Game by Green Layton

Author:Green, Layton [Green, Layton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Fantasy, Mystery
Amazon: B01F28AZKO
Goodreads: 58417000
Publisher: Sixth Street Press
Published: 2016-05-01T07:00:00+00:00

– 13 –

Later that evening, after a shrimp po’boy at Domilise’s and a long shower, Grey met Viktor at their hotel. They were staying at the Columns, a stately white mansion on St. Charles with a front porch big enough to throw a wedding on.

He found Viktor in the lounge, surrounded by dark wood and soft leather chairs. Well-dressed patrons sipped amber cocktails while a jazz pianist played softly across the hall.

“Rough day?” Viktor asked, taking in Grey’s bruised arms and black eye.

Grey plopped into a chair facing the arched entryway and gave Viktor a rundown of his visit to Scarecrow’s place. “We found a few interesting numbers on his phone,” Grey said. “One was a call from West Feliciana Parish, a few hours after we left Angola.”

“Interesting.”

“Scarecrow also placed a call to the D.A.’s office, right after the call from Angola.”

Viktor’s eyebrows lifted.

“That was the detective’s reaction, too. He’s looking into it.”

“Yet another party who had something to gain from the death of the former D.A.” Viktor said. “Does our detective have any theories?”

“Not yet. But there’s something else: guess who was the only other person to visit Samuelson in prison, besides his mother and Sebastian Gichaud?”

“Scarecrow Redbone.”

“That’s right. He went at least twice in the month before the execution.”

“Was he there during Sebastian’s visit?” Viktor asked sharply.

“If so, there’s no record of it.”

Viktor sank into his chair, absorbing the information. “And Genevieve? Did she inform Scarecrow of our visit?”

“There were no incoming calls last night.”

“I don’t suppose we can request phone records from a stolen memory card?”

“No.”

Viktor’s hand absently stroked an untouched glass of Scotch. Grey realized he had ordered it to be polite. The code of old money. “There is clearly a conspiracy of some sort,” the professor said finally. “Everyone’s motive is clear—except for Sebastian’s. Why would he agree to take the fall? Hero worship? That is the vital question.”

“Scarecrow knows what happened,” Grey said. “Bet on it.”

“I think you’re right,” Viktor said mysteriously, “but only partly so.”

“Meaning?”

“We’ll know more after tonight. Come,” he said, rising to his feet. As they left the hotel, walking between eponymous white columns as thick as oak trunks, Viktor said, “Be warned that it could be another eventful night.”

Grey felt the heft of a handgun in the back of his jeans, a nine-millimeter Beretta that Detective Boudreaux had authorized him to carry. “Understood.”

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