Vanished by Karen Robards - Vanished

Author:Karen Robards - Vanished [Robards, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9780340923405
Google: uqyMMARDscUC
Goodreads: 629612
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1999-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

13

In the end, as far as the police were concerned, a word scrawled in dust on a car window didn’t amount to very much. Even that word. Even when Sarah reminded them about Lexie and told them what the word meant. It wasn’t even that they were against her, angry at her, punishing her for pressing a rape case against two of their own. It was just that they weren’t all that interested.

Were even, in fact, a little perturbed that while they were dealing with Sarah’s collapse and subsequent near hysterical demands, the black guy in the Blazer took advantage of the commotion to drive away. Now there, their attitudes seemed to say, went some real crime.

If she hadn’t used every bit of her clout as an Assistant DA, they would have done nothing at all. As it was, she managed to get a couple of detectives she knew on the scene, managed to get pictures taken of the window and have the left side of the car dusted for fingerprints and some of the gathered residents questioned.

Nobody knew anything.

“Even if they did, they wouldn’t tell us,” Detective Carl Sexton told her as the mobile crime unit was packing up in preparation for leaving the scene. His blue eyes were as baggy and hooded as a bloodhound’s, but there was sympathy for her in their rheumy depths. He was gray-haired, maybe five eight or so and a little paunchy, one year away from retirement and the father of three grown daughters, which in Sarah’s opinion made all the difference in his attitude this afternoon. She had worked with him on numerous cases, and knew him to be a stand-up guy. Better yet, he didn’t seem to hold Crystal’s case against her.

“Could’ve been a kid just playing around, nothing to do with your daughter at all.” His partner, Detective Janet Kelso, was a trim brunette in her forties. She rested an arm on the hood of the patrol car and leaned in to talk to Sarah, who was sitting in the cruiser’s backseat with the door open, watching as the police did their work. “Or…”

Her eyes rested significantly on Sarah’s hands, which were clenched in her lap. Sarah realized in the few seconds that her gaze locked with Kelso’s that her physically subordinate position worked for the detectives in that she had to look up at them, which theoretically placed them in a position of power. She’d used the whole power position technique herself more than once while interviewing witnesses. But she was too physically and mentally drained at the moment to take back her authority by sliding out of the car and standing up.

“I already told you, I didn’t write that word on my window,” she said wearily. “Why would I?”

Kelso shrugged.

“It was just something that we needed to clear up.” At least Sexton had the grace to sound apologetic.

“Whoever did this almost has to be the same person who made the phone call to my house last night. The one that sounded like it was from my daughter.

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