Bark of Night by David Rosenfelt

Author:David Rosenfelt [Rosenfelt, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9781250133090
Google: USjGugEACAAJ
Amazon: B07J4VJL3C
Barnesnoble: B07J4VJL3C
Goodreads: 41150423
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2019-07-16T05:00:00+00:00

We drive to a diner on Route 4 in Elmwood Park.

There’s no sense hanging around in my office neighborhood, in case Chico Simmons sends out a posse to look for Zip and friends. Because Laurie, Marcus, and I all came in separate cars, we don’t get a chance to talk until we’re all situated in a booth in the back of the diner.

The place is relatively empty, so we can talk without fear of being overheard. Which is good, because I am dying to hear what Laurie has to say.

The waitress comes over and Laurie and I order coffee. Marcus orders a club sandwich, a hamburger, clam chowder, and pasta. I have never seen anyone eat like Marcus, but I resist the temptation to ask the waitress to bring him a shovel.

“I think I’d like to hear about you and Zip now,” I say, when the waitress finally leaves to get a flatbed trailer on which to bring Marcus his food.

Laurie nods. “Okay. At first Zip didn’t want to say anything. So I threatened him. I told him that Marcus was going to drive away with him, just the two of them. That scared him, no question about that, yet he still wouldn’t answer my questions in any meaningful way.”

“I hope we’re approaching a ‘but,’” I say.

“We are. But when that threat didn’t work, I told him that we were going to have the police pick up Chico Simmons for questioning for murder, and have them mention that it was Zip who fingered him. That scared the hell out of him, so he said he would talk as long as it didn’t get back to anyone, meaning Chico.”

“He was more scared of Chico than of Marcus?” I ask. I, for one, would be more scared of Marcus than of Jack the Ripper. Or Godzilla. Or Russia. When Laurie nods, I add, “Chico must be a very unpleasant guy.”

“No doubt,” she says. Marcus has no comment; he’s in the process of inhaling the entire basket of bread. Laurie continues, “But even though Zip was suddenly willing to talk, he really had nothing to say regarding our case. He’d never heard of Haley and had no idea why we were asking about him.”

“You believed him?”

“At first I didn’t, but then I did. Zip thought we were there because of a different murder.”

“What does that mean? What murder is that?”

“Christopher Tolbert, the homeless guy found executed in Nash Park. The guy whose funeral service Haley attended.”

“I don’t understand,” I say, because I don’t. “What did Zip have to do with that?”

“He claims he had nothing to do with it, which may or may not be true. But reading between the lines, he basically said that Chico was behind it.”

“What did Tolbert have to do with Chico?”

“Zip doesn’t know, or at least he claims he doesn’t know. But I couldn’t get any more out of him. I told him that if we find out he’s lying, Marcus would pay him a visit, and that we would spread the word that he fingered Chico.

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