Crimes and Passion by Jeffrey S. Stephens

Author:Jeffrey S. Stephens [Jeffrey S. Stephens]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction/Thrillers/Crime
ISBN: 9781640190627
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Published: 2017-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

Walker stopped off in the squad room to tell Kovacevic about his discussions with Chief Gill, Robert Strand, and Knoebel’s lawyer. He then left the junior officer to follow up on some leads while he headed to his car, intending to spend the rest of the unusually warm autumn day in New York City.

First, however, he was stopping off to visit with Nettie Sisson.

On his way, he wondered about Dr. Knoebel’s initial indifference to the news that they had taken his wife’s computer, then his change of mind about it. Not only did he change his mind, but he had his attorney call to threaten Walker and the entire Darien Police Department if the computer and all of the documents downloaded from it were not promptly returned. If that was not enough to raise Walker’s level of suspicion a notch or two, there was that little matter of the good doctor’s eagerness to have his wife’s body cremated. For once, the chief surprised Walker, unexpectedly backing him up by issuing an order that the body be held until all possible leads were fully developed. Walker doubted that the coroner’s office had missed anything, but the delay in releasing her remains might at least create some emotional pressure while the department struggled to pull together whatever they could and try to make sense of it all.

The department consisting, in essence, of Anthony Walker.

If Knoebel knew about his wife’s diary, why did he not issue an immediate protest and demand the computer back the first day? Why give the police as much time with it as he had before taking action? One possibility was that Knoebel wanted Walker to have a shot of piecing together some sort of puzzle that might lead to the identity of his wife’s killer. But if that were so, why insist on having it returned now?

A more logical answer was that Knoebel knew nothing of SEXUAL RITES then, but he knew it now. Which begged the obvious question - who told him?

Walker therefore decided, before checking out Dr. Knoebel’s alibi at the hospital in New York, to satisfy his curiosity about the housekeeper with the violent past. Among other things, he wanted to find out what she knew about Elizabeth’s diary and - more important - what she knew about the authenticity of what had been depicted in such vivid detail by the murdered woman.

Nettie lived in a development of small units set in a series of nondescript, two-story buildings in Port Chester. The layout was not much different than the place where he lived, Walker observed with a wry smile. This was the real world, where the working class exists for the opportunity to serve the privileged class.

He shook off his cynicism by the time he found his way to her apartment. He knocked twice and waited.

When Nettie opened the door her face betrayed a mixture of concern and fear, a reasonable reaction to an unannounced appearance by a homicide detective. But there was something else in her eyes - she had been expecting him.

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