A Luca Mystery Series Box Set Books 1 - 3 by Dan Petrosini

Author:Dan Petrosini [Petrosini, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07PBN8GLB
Published: 2019-04-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Luca

I hung up the phone and shook my head. Did I miss it? Damn it. It was a fundamental, you dummy, and you never considered it? How could I have missed it? The clues were in plain sight. You knew the wife was a first-class type A. The husband disappears without a trace, and you forgot to ask about any life insurance? Mistake number one.

It took a tip from Stewart about the dough Robin was gonna collect. I didn’t like the source, but information is information. Now she’s in the crosshairs for a while. That’s the textbook path to take.

I rolled around the investigation into the insurance procurement and benefits. There were flags, not red, but pink. How could I be so focused on her that I didn’t even explore an alternative?

Was I losing my edge? Even though I felt good, despite all the bullshit I went through and was still going through, especially with my private parts, I knew deep down that the sickness changed me. How could it not? Funny thing is, I no longer saw things as black and white anymore; there was gray in life these days. Yet with the Gabelli case, I’d been looking at things as either-or.

How the hell did I miss not considering that the Gabellis planned this together? As I considered it, the possibility they conspired together blossomed. Such a conspiracy could take multiple forms:

Phil would disappear and Robin would collect the insurance. Then, after a period, Robin would disappear and join Phil wherever he was. Or Robin would collect, stay put, but split the money with Phil. Maybe Phil wanted to take off and assuaged his guilt with the money Robin would get. Or, who knows, maybe all the talk about marital problems was nothing more than a classic misdirection.

If the philandering turned out to be nonsense, I’d have to consider turning my badge in. Maybe get an inside desk job to be sure I got my pension. The union would help me. I’d use the health card. It’d be easy, as long as I could swallow my pride.

A conspiracy sure answered the questions about why there was a policy only on Phil and why they passed on the accidental death doubler, not to mention the second-to-die option. But I wasn’t sold that it solved the crime. Conspiracies are tough to pull off in general, but when it revolves around a so-called missing person, it gets zillions of times harder. Where can anyone really hide today, especially with three million bucks and a lifestyle in the upper echelon? In today’s world, you can’t pick your nose without it being on Facebook.

Knowing all that didn’t make me feel any better. It was the fact I never even considered it that shook me to my core. Rocking my boat further was the fact the new lead came from none other than Dom Stewart.

Was this guy playing with me? He was the one who dropped the dime on the three-million-dollar insurance payout. Why

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