ARC: Peacemaker by Marianne De Pierres

Author:Marianne De Pierres [De Pierres, Marianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: science fiction, Virgin Jackson, park ranger, megacity, drug runners, Nate Sixkiller
ISBN: 9780857664198
Publisher: Angry Robot
Published: 2014-04-28T23:00:00+00:00

We were done an hour later. I told him about the murder, the Marshall, my trip to Divine Province and how I’d just crawled across into Jusco’s from his attic looking for a clue to who’d sent Leo Teng after me.

“Why didn’t you just ask me to help?”

I shrugged. “Didn’t want to involve you. But I guess that didn’t work out so well, huh.”

He sighed. “Did you find anything?”

“Yes, and I gave it to my friend Caro. She left the party as they dragged me out. The only thing they’ll find is one of your paddles, down in the alley. It fell as I climbed back.”

“You went across from my play room?”

“Yeah sorry. It was the most direct route.”

He grunted. “I’ll say I threw it out there yesterday.”

“It will have my DNA on it.”

“Then you’ll just have to admit to having a penchant for older men.”

I nodded. “You’ll cover for me?”

“Of course.”

I nodded at that. “Thank you Chef. I have no right to–”

“You have every right to. I told your father I would watch out for you. And that is what I will do. Is there anything else I should know?”

“Your bouncer, the one who the Marshall knocked out… he knows I went upstairs.”

“He is on his way to Saint Gilliard’s Clinic with a broken jaw. He will not be speaking to anyone for a while, and when he is, I will make sure it’s not mentioned.”

My gratitude evinced itself as stinging tears behind my eyes.

“This detective, she wants you bad?” he asked.

“I think she just needs an arrest. I don’t know. Maybe there’s more to it. Either way, I need to find out the truth myself.”

“I will send my lawyer to visit you. He is good.”

“Superintendent Hunt wants me to use Park lawyers.”

Chef made a rude noise. “Bureaucrats. My man knows how to win a fight.”

I hesitated. It would annoy Bull and I needed my boss on side but Chef had a point. Park lawyers were all about conveyancing, property and environmental law. Their kind of crime came in shades of white. They could be underdone handling a murder.

“Just meet with him, Virgin. Humour me.”

I smiled and nodded.

“Good girl. Now we get you home before Detective Heavy Boots comes kicking through my door.”

I hugged him. “If you hadn’t come and caused a scene, I’d still be in that van.”

“For that you must thank your young man. He came to me, said what I should do in front of the cameras.”

“Young man?”

“Virgin,” he said with a sigh. “I see you with your girlfriend, I think that maybe she is your partner. Then the boy, the dancer, he comes and tells me who he is, and what I should do.”

“You mean Heart?”

“Yes, Heart Williams. His name I’m not so sure about… but the rest I liked.”

Chef’s revelation took me by surprise. “Do you know where he went?”

He shrugged. “Perhaps he is outside still?”

I pulled out my phone and called him but it went to message. “Call me, please.”

Greta poked her head in the office.

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