Between Truth and Lies (Flynn & Levy Book 3) by David DeLee

Author:David DeLee [DeLee, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Road Publishing
Published: 2022-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

7th Precinct – Detective Squad Room

19 ½ Pitt Street, Manhattan

Friday, February 7th 5:52 p.m.

That evening, Lovato and Toro returned to the squad room to write up their reports. Their desks were covered with paperwork, each working on computerized DD5 forms when Harley strolled into the squad room.

“Well, if it ain’t Mutt and Jeff,” Harley said, tucking his sunglasses into the inside pocket of his leather jacket. “The two hardest working detectives in the NYPD.”

Toro tossed a pen onto the files spread across his desk. “What’s happening, Upstate?”

Harley rolled a chair over from a nearby desk and plopped down into it, sitting backward. He folded his arms over the back of the chair. “Where you two been all day?”

“Canvassing neighbors at the Seward,” Lovato said.

“Doing police work,” Toro added. “Something you old retired guys only reminisce about now.”

“Hardy-har-har,” Harley said, enjoying the banter. “Turn up anything?”

Toro shrugged. “Got a few of ’em to turn over their cell phone video. Unedited stuff. Not like the shit that’s flooding the Internet.”

“Give you anything?”

Lovato and Toro exchanged glances, playing it close to the vest. “We’ve turned it all over to TARU. Have to wait and see what they turn up.”

“You?” Toro asked.

Harley shrugged and rubbed his eyes. He gave the two detectives a rundown of his lunch with Flynn, Levy, and McKenna.

“Sounds like they’re getting put through the wringer in court,” Toro said.

“Which’ll only get worse, adding a grand jury inquiry into the mix,” Lovato said.

“Pricks should try doing this job. Just for one fucking day,” Toro said.

“Yeah,” Harley agreed.

“What are you working on?” Lovato asked.

“At lunch today,” Harley said, splaying his hands on the desk and pulling himself forward. “Something Flynn said has been tickling at the back of my brain. The tag we found at the sniper’s nest, at the Weston shooting.”

“Everybody’s heard of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” Toro said. “Nobody knows that life for life, fracture for fracture bullshit. Don’t mean shit.”

“Except, our guy actually got it right,” Harley said. “He wrote ‘eye for eye,’ not ‘an eye for an eye.’ And he calls himself the Avenger of Righteousness.”

“So?” Toro asked.

“This shit goes back to ancient Mesopotamia,” Harley said. “When this dude King Hammurabi wanted to codify the laws of his people. He’s been called the King of Righteousness.”

“How do you know all this shit?” Toro asked.

“The History Channel. What? You don’t watch?”

“How’s that help us?” Lovato asked.

“That he’s the avenger of righteousness? It’s a clue to his mindset. He knows this stuff, studied it or whatever,”

“A minister or priest?” Toro asked.

“Or a scholar of some kind. Maybe an academic?” Lovato offered.

“I don’t know, maybe. An angle worth looking into,” Harley said. “But it speaks to motive. He—or she—has a messiah complex. He’s a chosen one. At least in his mind.”

“Meaning this thing isn’t over,” Lovato said.

“More like he’s just getting started.”

“Or that tag’s been up there for months, years,” Toro said, “and ain’t part of this at all.”

“The super said it wasn’t there three days ago,” Lovato said.

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