[Alex Cooper 03] Cold Hit by Linda Fairstein

Author:Linda Fairstein [Fairstein, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

“Got any idea why she hired that guy Omar and had him working here with her?”

“It made me furious, actually. Bryan can tell you. I had dozens of arguments with Deni about Omar. And I wasn’t sorry to see him turn up in a ditch, Mike. But she thought it was her best protection against Lowell, sort of an insurance policy.”

“She’d have been a very rich widow if Lowell had died first, wouldn’t she, Mr. Wrenley?”

“Take a trip with me to Palm Beach, Mike. You want rich widows? I didn’t have to come to New York to catch myself one of those, if that’s your implication. They’re as thick as palmetto bugs down there.”

“Sorry about Denise, Mr. Wrenley.” I offered my hand as he stood up to leave.

For the rest of the afternoon, Bryan Daughtry led the detectives through the beginnings of a painstaking search of the art inventory in the gallery and adjacent warehouse. I sat in his office as he produced much of the documentation requested in the subpoena, reading and xeroxing stacks of bills and papers, the endless figures blurring my vision by the close of the day.

“You guys need me for anything?” I asked Mercer at six fifteen. “I’m supposed to go to dinner and the ballet tonight, if you can carry on without me.”

“Scat. We’ll grab some chow when we leave here, and see if we can catch up with the Crime Scene guys at Varelli’s studio. I’ll leave a message on your machine if we find anything interesting. You around tomorrow?”

I was tired, dismayed by the dead ends we kept meeting in this case, and glad the following day was Friday. “I’ll be in all day. I’ve got a ticket on the seven-thirty evening flight for the weekend, but I feel guilty leaving you with all this hanging.”

“Nothing you can do, Coop, till we give you a perp. Be on that plane. We’ll be talking to you before that.”

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