Crosshairs by James Patterson

Author:James Patterson [Patterson, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781529159653
Published: 2024-01-31T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 56

YESTERDAY, ROB TRILLING had found the sniper’s perch one block south of the building where Gus Querva had been shot. Trilling had talked to the crime-scene tech who’d taken the most photographs. The photos were detailed and showed the wound just above Querva’s right temple. Trilling admired the shot from a professional perspective.

After looking at the photos, Trilling determined where the body had been found, then stood in that spot and looked down the street in each direction. That’s when he knew exactly where the shot had come from. A nice recessed doorway to a small office building was perfect. Trilling got crime-scene techs to photograph it. He didn’t ask for any DNA swabs of the area.

Trilling liked working alone and consulting with the crime-scene people as needed. He didn’t feel like he was just tagging along behind someone as he usually did with Michael Bennett. Not that that was a bad place to be. He appreciated how the seasoned detective had gone out of his way to explain how investigations worked and how everything came down to details. There were no shortcuts in a homicide investigation.

Today, Trilling checked security footage from the shops and buildings around the crime scene. He’d just finished looking at the fifth security recording. He was able to find a short clip of a man carrying a long case right after the shooting. The man walked past a camera in an electronics store. The image wasn’t clear enough to identify the man, but Trilling could see that he was around six feet with short, dark hair. He didn’t appear overweight or really skinny. Pretty similar to the description given by the coffee shop employee.

Trilling wanted to prove to Michael Bennett that he could conduct a professional investigation even if he wasn’t sorry that the victim was dead. Gus Querva and his buddies had run roughshod over parts of the Bronx. The media focused on Querva’s PR moves, especially the money he’d shelled out for community centers. The irony was, he had taken the money from the community before he’d put it back into the community. Not one major media outlet seemed to ever question how he’d made his money.

Just thinking about the situation made Trilling angry.

As he was going over his assignment notes, Trilling got a text. He looked down at it immediately. He was surprised to see it was from Michael Bennett’s daughter, Juliana, asking if he had time to call her.

Trilling sighed and made the call right then.

Juliana’s cheerful voice immediately made him perk up. She wanted to go to lunch. When he said he didn’t have time, she settled for ice cream. She gave him a place on the Upper West Side that was on his route back to the office.

As Trilling walked down the block toward the ice cream shop about twenty minutes later, he wondered why he was doing it. No question Juliana was a beautiful, intelligent girl. But the hassles this could cause in his already strained relationship with Michael Bennett outweighed the benefits.

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