The Rookie Club Thriller series Box Set by Danielle Girard

Author:Danielle Girard [Girard, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996308946
Publisher: Saddle Peak Entertainment
Published: 2019-09-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Hal grabbed his jacket. “I’m going down to evidence to get the keys to Robbins’s house.”

“Should I come?”

He shook his head. “You go home. Keep your phone on you, and I’ll call when I’m done.” He took a few steps and turned back. “See what you can find out—”

“About Blake. I know. I’m going to talk to Ryaan Berry about Regal Insurance Group. She recognized the name when we talked the other night.”

“Yes.” He was jazzed. “There’s got to be some connection to Regal Insurance.”

*

Hal arrived at Hunters Point while it was still light enough to make the projects seem innocuous, especially from a distance. A series of blue and yellow faded blocks rose up around him, the buildings sitting high enough on the hill that it was hard to see their true state.

Hal figured that was in the design.

Aside from his house and the department, he’d visited these buildings more than any place in San Francisco—a sad statement to his personal life.

And to the state of things in these projects.

When Hal turned off Third Street and onto Evans, the dampening light warned that night was closing in. He turned up Keith Street and passed two kids pedaling across the cracked blacktop, the bikes so small their knees nearly touched their chins. Farther down, a handful of others played hockey with loose chunks of asphalt.

This was one of the roughest neighborhoods in the Bay Area. The kids who grew up here had almost no chance of getting out. According to some statistics, more than a quarter of them wouldn’t live to see eighteen.

Almost none lived with both parents. Some didn’t live with any parents at all. Maybe half went to school, fewer regularly. Even Hal wasn’t safe here. No police officer was.

He arrived at the building where James Robbins lived and looked around for the backup patrol officers who were supposed to meet him. He’d arrived first.

Robbins’s mother had died of cancer two years earlier. His father was AWOL. He and his sister were in the care of a woman named Betty Parker, although Records showed Parker had a different apartment number than Robbins and his sister. Dispatch confirmed the car was en route, so Hal went to take a look around, maybe talk to a couple of Robbins’s neighbors. He climbed the stairs to the third floor.

Smells of trash and urine filled his nose as he stopped at Robbins’s door, the first unit on the west end of the building.

To the left of the door was a small patch of concrete balcony, maybe three feet square, littered with trash, cigarette butts and bits of broken bottles. He walked to the edge and looked down at the street. The kids still rode their miniature bikes. The shouts of the hockey players rose up from below.

When he turned back toward the door, he noticed chalk drawings on the outside wall of Robbins’s house, just a foot or so above the ground. Beneath them, the dirty patio had been swept clean of debris.

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