Watchers in the Night by Jenna Black

Author:Jenna Black [Black, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Tags: Vampires, Mystery & Detective, Paranormal, Women private investigators, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Women Sleuths, Occult fiction, Occult & Supernatural, Love stories
ISBN: 9780765354518
Publisher: Tor Paranormal Romance
Published: 2006-10-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Carolyn was really starting to doubt that it was necessary to stay with Hannah indefinitely, but Hannah wouldn’t hear of her leaving, so she supposed she was stuck. The first day after leaving Gray locked in his basement, she’d called one of her old friends from the department and casually pumped him for information about the Banger case. What she learned only cemented her conviction that the Banger was a vampire.

One of the pieces of information the police had not revealed to the press was that in not one of the Banger’s victims was there any sign of a struggle. No skin under the fingernails, no bruises, no abrasions. Nothing. The best guess was that the victims were subdued with chloroform, which was very hard to detect after the fact. Even so, one would have thought there’d be some sign of struggle. But of course, if the killer was a vampire, all it took was a touch of glamour, and the victim would let him do whatever he pleased without a peep of protest. The thought made Carolyn shudder with revulsion.

The other interesting detail she learned was that the police had been unsuccessful in their attempts to obtain the Banger’s fingerprints. It appeared he wore gloves to perform his gruesome murders. Carolyn thought that very telling—why would he bother with gloves unless he thought his prints were on file? Mortal killers would do it to avoid prosecution, but she suspected prosecution wasn’t the Banger’s greatest threat. Her heart leapt with hope, and she put in a call to Ted at the fingerprint lab. Unfortunately, he didn’t have any results for her yet.

After that, with Gray locked in his basement, and Jules refusing to talk, there wasn’t a damn thing Carolyn could do. It wasn’t a situation she took to with much grace, and she was lucky Hannah didn’t throw her out, considering how crabby she was becoming.

The Banger was still out there, no doubt ready for his next kill. And the only thing that stood between him and his next victim were a group of amateur sleuths whose only qualification for hunting down a murderer was that they were vampires.

How many more would have to die before the Guardians managed to find the killer?

* * *

Gray’s feet hurt from pacing, so he forced himself to sit on the faded, dusty divan he’d dug out from under a pile of boxes. The divan had served as his bed for the last three terminable days, and he was royally sick of the thing. However, most of the other furniture in this hell-hole of a basement was broken, so unless he wanted to sleep on the floor, he had few choices.

At the end of his first night, he’d uncovered a box full of books. He’d eagerly torn the box open, hoping for something to distract him from the sheer boredom of his imprisonment. Unfortunately, Kate’s taste had run to lurid romance and erotica, and Gray had shoved the box away in disappointment.

He’d

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