Body of Lies by Deirdre Savoy

Author:Deirdre Savoy [Savoy, Deirdre]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780758212290
Publisher: Dafina
Published: 2006-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

“So we finally meet.”

Zach shook the hand of Darryl Ferguson, the detective from online crime that he’d been trying to meet with the past couple of days, but either Darryl’s schedule or his hadn’t permitted it. Although Darryl was off today he agreed to meet as long as Zach was willing to do it on his turf. Both men settled into lawn chairs at the back of Ferguson’s house while the family barbecue sizzled on the grill. “What’s going on?”

“You tell me.” Ferguson pulled a Corona from the cooler beside him. “Want one?”

Zach accepted the beer and twisted off the top. The liquid felt cool and refreshing going down. Just what he needed. “You know I’m working on that Amazon thing.”

Darryl nodded before taking a swig. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. “That’s some nasty business.”

“And getting nastier. It turns out some of his victims weren’t pros as originally thought. He might have met some of the girls on the Internet. All of them had pages on this site called Your place.”

Darryl nodded again. “I’ve heard of that site. Popular with the teenyboppers. We’re just starting to look into that one. A couple of months ago, a mom catches her daughter sneaking out her bedroom window to meet some pervert she met online. The only information the girl will give us is that she met the guy in one of this site’s chat rooms. But there’s nothing on her computer—no saved chat logs, no IMs. The kid had 102 names on her buddy list, but she told us we were wasting our time since his name wasn’t there. Apparently the perp told her to delete anything of his she’d saved so if her parents disapproved of them seeing each other, they couldn’t find out who he was and stop them.”

Obviously the girl had fallen for that explanation, since she’d done what he asked. Had Thorpe done the same thing with his victims? Or could Thorpe and the man Darryl was after be the same man? Two months ago had been the first time the killer hadn’t left a victim. Had this mother’s attentiveness kept her daughter from meeting the same fate as the others?

“What night was this?”

“January twenty-fifth, exactly one month after Christmas.”

“What did she look like?”

“Like every other kid these days: thirteen going on thirty-five. Too much hair, too much boobs, too much makeup.”

Just the way Thorpe liked them. “A Catholic school girl?”

“Yeah. Why?”

“We like a guy named Walter Thorpe for the killer. Seems to be his type. A kill on January twenty-fifth would fit his pattern, but there wasn’t one that month.”

Darryl took a long pull from his bottle. “Then this kid might be luckier than she knows. Last I heard, she was mad at her mother for taking the computer away.”

That seemed a reasonable reaction for a thirteen-year-old, if his Stevie was anyone to go by. “Assuming for a moment that your guy and my guy are the same guy, what can we

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