Vanished in the Night by Eileen Carr

Author:Eileen Carr [Carr, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romantic Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9781439183915
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2011-07-26T18:26:15+00:00

11

“Somebody was back here for a while.” Phong Lee, the crime-scene tech, looked at Zach from underneath the oak tree in the backyard.

“Anything you can tell me about him?” Zach asked. The likelihood of the murderer being a woman seemed vanishingly small. It would take a good-size man to have hauled George Osborne up those stairs. He’d seen plenty of buff women at the gym, but he doubted any of them had the strength to haul the dead weight of a fully grown man up a staircase and then hurl him back down.

Lee shrugged. “I’ll look at some charts and get you some approximate weights and heights when we get back to the lab. At this point I’m figuring a dude who’s about six feet tall.”

“I’m also pretty sure it’s not the same person who kicked the crap out of your vic before he threw him down the stairs.”

Now, that was interesting. “I’m listening.”

“I didn’t get a good look at the body, but Little Hillary said something about a dress shoe.” Phong pointed over at the step. “Not too many dress shoes with waffle soles. That looks like a work boot.”

“So we’ve got two perps? One inside, and maybe one keeping watch back here?” That didn’t make sense. Why post a lookout back here? You should be watching for someone coming to the front door.

“That’s up to you to figure out, Detective. But I don’t think whoever was back here ever went into the house. Near as I can reconstruct, he hunkered down here under this tree for a good long while.” Phong pointed to where the ground had been disturbed. “Then he went up to the back door, stood looking in, spent a little time crouched under that window, and then took off.”

“So some kind of voyeur?” Who the hell would watch someone being murdered and do nothing about it? “Thanks.”

Zach headed back into the house, which was buzzing like a beehive.

Frank was standing in the kitchen, talking to two crime-scene techs. He turned to Zach as he came in. “So what are you thinking? You think this homicide is linked with the kid’s bones turning up?”

Zach blew out a deep breath. “On the one hand, I can’t imagine that they are linked. There’s what? Twenty years between the two? On the other hand, I can’t imagine that they’re not linked. It’s way too much of a coincidence.”

“I got the same set of questions.” Frank chewed on a toothpick he’d pulled from his pocket. “I don’t like coincidence in a homicide investigation any more than you do, but I’m having trouble figuring out why a really old set of bones would get someone killed. It’s not like we’re hot on anybody’s trail at this point.”

“Is someone pulling all his phone records?” Zach asked.

Frank nodded. “I got some uniforms doing a door-to-door, too. Maybe somebody saw something or someone. A car. A guy. Something.”

It was the kind of neighborhood where somebody might indeed have seen something. On the other hand,

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