[CC04] Divine Justice by David Baldacci

Author:David Baldacci [Baldacci, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9780446505383
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2008-11-03T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 43

THE INTERVIEW with Charlie Trimble was going better than Stone had expected. His questions were polite but prepared. And then it began to change. The reporter sat in his old swivel chair, a piercing expression in his gaze, one that was making Stone extremely uncomfortable.

“You seem familiar to me, Ben. Have we met before?”

“I don’t see how.”

“You ever been in Washington?”

“Never.”

Trimble sat back and drummed his fingers on his desk. “Why’d you come here?”

“Just making sure Danny was okay.”

“That’s all?”

“Why not?”

Before Trimble could launch another question, Stone pounced. “What do you know about Debby Randolph’s and Rory Peterson’s deaths?”

At first, Trimble seemed taken aback by this, but his expression became bemused. “Why do you want to know?”

“Some people tried to kill Danny. I think somebody tried to OD Willie.”

“I talked to Bob Coombs about that. Do you have any proof?”

“Just what Willie told me and what the doctors found in his system.”

“Willie’s a drug user, not the most reliable people in the world.”

“Have you talked to him about that?” Stone asked sharply. Trimble shook his head. “Then you’re not really in a position to gauge his credibility, are you?”

Trimble’s face flushed but then he smiled. “You make a good point. I do need to talk to him.”

“So getting back to my question. Danny and Willie both are targets. They both knew Debby. Willie was engaged to marry her.”

“I didn’t know that.”

“No one apparently did. Debby supposedly commits suicide. Willie thinks that’s impossible. He talked to her the night before she was found dead. She sounded great.”

“Sheriff Tyree looked into all that. It did seem crazy that Debby would do that, but all the evidence pointed to suicide.”

“It’s pretty easy to make murder seem like suicide if you know what you’re doing.”

Trimble shot him a penetrating look. “You know about such things?”

“I’m just trying to get to the truth, Mr. Trimble.”

“Call me Charlie. And why are you so set on doing that? You’ve only been here a short while.”

Stone rubbed his shoulder and then his head. “Let’s put it this way, I don’t like being pushed around.” And then there’s Abby. “How was Peterson killed?” he asked.

“Gunshot. Probably during a robbery. There was a safe in his office that had been forced. Cash, some files, and his computer were stolen. Tyree’s been working that one too, but he’s not come up with much, at least that he’s confided in me. He’s the entire police force, you know.”

“He could call in the state police.”

“He might do that.” Trimble smiled. “Or maybe his brother.”

“His brother?”

“Howard Tyree. He’s the warden up at Blue Spruce Prison.”

“He never mentioned that.”

“Well, I’m not sure the two get along all that well. So my suggestion of him calling in his brother to help was a poor attempt at a joke. Tyree’s on his own.”

A few minutes later Stone left the Divine Eagle office and headed to see the sheriff.

He found him in the jail building going over some papers.

When he told Tyree what had happened to him in the mineshaft, the lawman nearly came out of his chair.

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