All That Remains (Lancaster Falls Book 3) by RJ Scott

Author:RJ Scott [Scott, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781785641763
Publisher: Love Lane Books Ltd
Published: 2020-06-23T18:30:00+00:00

By the time I made it back to the hotel, it was past midnight, and Josh had long since left the PD. Sawyer, Logan, Heather, and the coroner had worked the scene. Avery had helped me interview Megan, but all she could tell us was that the mayor had shoved her into a room and told her to hide.

From whom, she couldn’t tell us. She did what she’d been told, armed herself from the lost and found, and stayed where she’d been put. She heard shouting, but none of it was coherent that she could tell us. I believed because the walls of the house were thick and stone, faced with wood, that she heard volume but not actual words. I paused for a moment outside the hotel, standing in the shadows and steeling myself for what I might find. There were now two suspicious deaths, we had nothing yet from the coroner, and making sense of everything was causing my thoughts to spin. I still couldn’t get over the fact that the murder of the mayor, grisly, intentional, was intentionally staged. We had the mayor’s office computer with links to child porn right there on his desktop in plain sight, and Sawyer was getting a warrant for his home in the hope that they’d find something, but I wasn’t sure what we would find. I was convinced everything had been handed to us on a plate, the links, the photos—this was cold calculation, and a murder so violent it made me nauseous.

But why would someone want to show us what the mayor was? Or imply that he was hurting young boys. Why link it to the Casey McGuire case? Was the mayor connected to that? I’d watched when Logan had told Drew. I hadn’t meant to, but I’d been in the room when Drew had arrived, and the way the blood had left his face and he’d reached out to hold on to Logan was a visceral tug to my heart.

And now I had to face Josh. He’d given a statement and then said he was going to be with his sister if we needed him. I assumed at some point Josh had come back to the hotel with Harry. So what did I say to him when I went inside to make things better? Was there anything that could make what he’d seen less horrific?

“Did you see anything out of the ordinary? Do you think they can get DNA from the body or tell anything from the blood spatter?” As soon as I unlocked the door and let myself in, Josh was on me as if he’d been waiting for me. He was pale and rubbing his wrists, where they’d been cuffed. I’d seen him do that a lot as he’d sat in the PD, even as Sawyer apologized. It was an absent gesture, and I didn’t think he even knew what he was doing. I couldn’t think of a way to reassure him. All I’d seen at the scene was a bloody murder, with the message on the wall written in black marker, not with blood.

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