Captured on Kauai by R. Barri Flowers

Author:R. Barri Flowers [R. Barri Flowers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Police & Law Enforcement, Suspense, Multicultural & Interracial, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural
ISBN: 9780369731913
Google: Fp9dEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B09S11KQX8
Barnesnoble: B09S11KQX8
Goodreads: 60421192
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2022-09-27T07:00:00+00:00

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DEX STARED THROUGH the one-way window into the interrogation room. Detective Clayton Pietz was grilling the suspect, Kenneth Monaghan, thirtysomething and husky, with long blond hair in a rope ponytail and dark eyes. He was dressed in black jeans and a faded gray jersey T-shirt.

“You’re in some deep trouble, Monaghan,” Pietz blasted him on the other side of a square metal table. “We know you cut the brake lines on the Toyota Tacoma that DEA Agent Roxanne Yamamoto was driving the night of Saturday, January 7, which led to the vehicle crashing and Agent Yamamoto’s death. How do we know this? Because you left behind just enough of a fingerprint on a brake line that we were able to run it through an FBI database and match it with a fingerprint that was already in the system for your prior criminality.”

Monaghan squirmed. “That don’t prove I killed her,” he snapped defiantly.

“Think again!” Pietz knitted his brows. “We have an eyewitness who can place you hovering around the victim’s vehicle prior to her entering it for the fatal drive. If that isn’t enough, we confiscated a pair of scissors from your house that you foolishly never bothered to throw away and we were able to link them to the cut brake lines. There’s no escaping this, Monaghan,” the detective said forcefully. “The first-degree murder of a federal law enforcement officer is serious business with serious consequences. Obviously, you didn’t decide to do this all on your own. Your best bet, if you know what’s good for you, is to come clean and tell us who put you up to it. Your call...”

Dex groaned within, wondering if the suspect would realize that the hole he’d dug for himself was one he couldn’t possibly hope to climb out of. Or was he more frightened by the drug traffickers involved and therefore wouldn’t crack? It pained Dex to think that he was looking at the perp responsible for taking away Roxanne’s life. He deserved no less. Putting him away for the rest of his miserable life would be anything but a picnic while behind bars, nevertheless. Assuming he didn’t cut a deal that gave him some daylight at the end of the tunnel.

“Yeah, I cut the brake lines,” Monaghan admitted, head down. “A clean cut.”

Pietz leaned forward. “Who hired you to kill her?”

“I don’t know. Not exactly.” Monaghan drew a long breath. “I was offered twenty grand to slice the brake lines. I only spoke to the guy over the phone,” he insisted.

“How did you get the money?” Pietz asked, his voice soaked with skepticism.

“It was left for me in a garbage can in the park,” Monaghan claimed.

“What park?”

“Hā’ena State Park.” Monaghan’s shoulders slumped. “I went right where I was told, found the cash in a brown paper bag and took it. Never heard from the guy again.”

Dex couldn’t decide if the perp was telling the truth or not. His instincts told him that someone else was calling the shots. But who?

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