Dead Reckoning: A Jack Sheridan Pulp Thriller (Jack Sheridan Pulp Thrillers Book 4) by Allan Leverone

Author:Allan Leverone [Leverone, Allan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rock Bottom Books
Published: 2019-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

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Overall, Matt Burke considered today’s events to be a net plus.

He couldn’t complain about the results of a day where he uncovered video evidence showing the murder occurring in real time. That such a video existed was a rare and wonderful gift, something that almost never happened in the world of homicide investigation, even in a society where everyone carried sophisticated recording devices in their purses or back pockets.

So he couldn’t claim to be disappointed in the investigation’s progress.

But the rest of the day had turned out to be a bust, and not the kind where he placed a suspect under arrest and tossed his ass into a jail cell.

The grieving widow struck Burke as a naïve young woman who had stumbled into a marriage with a slimeball old enough to be her father by virtue of her good looks and less than genius IQ. But neither of those factors was illegal, and they certainly didn’t add up to a murder conviction.

He could by no means clear Amber Spinelli at this point, but his gut told him she had neither the brains nor the desire to hatch a murder plot against her husband.

The visit to Spinelli’s ex-wife hadn’t yielded any better results. His initial impression upon seeing the shabby little house sitting in the middle of the shabby little Dorchester neighborhood was that her living situation might represent motive. Who was Rocco Spinelli to sit in his grand house with his much younger and more beautiful wife when Mary Carson was struggling to make ends meet after divorcing his sorry ass?

And it was always possible that was the case, but Burke didn’t think so. The former Mary Spinelli had seemed genuinely shocked to learn of her ex-husband’s violent death, and Burke had dealt with enough suspects that he thought his radar on the subject was pretty reliable.

Plus, the divorce wasn’t fresh and painful; it had happened a long time ago. “We got married when we were both teenagers,” Carson had said to him, “and I figured out inside of a few months I’d made a huge mistake. Even then, Rocco was in deep with the mob, and I knew eventually he would end up dead or in prison. He was flashing money around and driving fancy cars, and that held a certain allure when we were dating, but once we got married it occurred to me I was always going to play second fiddle to his crime connections, and sooner or later I would end up alone.”

She’d said it all matter-of-factly, answering all his questions with no apparent guile. When he’d mentioned that some people stuck in her living situation might resent the fact that her ex was living such an affluent lifestyle while she was…not, she had laughed like he was doing a Vegas standup comedy show.

When he asked what she found so funny, she’d said, “How much time do you have? First of all, Rocco isn’t ‘living an affluent lifestyle’ anymore, is he? He isn’t living any lifestyle anymore, exactly as I predicted so long ago.

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