Deadly Waves by Hadashi Kay

Author:Hadashi, Kay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

When Petrina got to the station in the morning, she dropped off the bag of rabbit stew from the restaurant, sealed inside an evidence bag and labeled with a low priority sticker, in the medical forensics lab.

Thank goodness Petrina had something else to work on rather than heads without bodies, bodies without heads, and wondering about the manner in which bunnies were butchered. It was her third day to work the Sorensen case, and she would need to turn it over to Officer Andris at the end of the day if she didn’t have any solid leads into the perpetrator of that crime. Instead of sitting at her desk, something no investigator ever liked doing, she tucked her pistol into its holster, put on her jacket, and left the station.

It was time to canvas the northern tip of the island where Sorensen’s body had been found. She’d already checked the tide report, and with luck, it was just beginning to come in, the same conditions as when his body was found. Maybe visualizing the place again with a fresh set of eyes would reveal something she hadn’t noticed before.

Not many people were around that part of the beach at the time, maybe because it was simply too windy to comfortably sunbathe. Off to the west was the windier side of the island, and she could just make out a few windsurfers testing their mettle in the blustery wind that blew across the Aegean Sea. Around the other way to the east were the sunbathers hiding from the sun beneath large umbrellas lined up in tidy rows and columns facing the calmer Mediterranean Sea, with its gentle surface being more inviting to swim. Further along Elli Beach was where the only casino on the island was found, a fancy place that rivaled the casino in Monaco.

Out in the water from the beach below the casino was a diving platform that remained busy. But Petrina wasn’t interested in diving or sunbathing, or even the casino that day. What she needed to know was why someone would decapitate a man at the beach, and how to go about carrying his head away unseen, all while no one else noticing the body.

There were few people around the tip of the island, more of a sand bar that would become submerged at high tide. People out for a romantic walk or an energetic run along the beach tended to cut the corner, passing closer to the public aquarium rather than going all the way out to the shore edge close to the water. There really wasn’t much to see at all there, just more pebbly sand, blue-green water, a bluer sky than what she remembered seeing in Athens, and Turkey twelve miles away across the water.

A sailboat went past a few hundred meters off shore, followed by a motorboat that was in a hurry to get somewhere. Miles beyond those was a container ship, taking goods from one port to another, possibly even from Black Sea ports to the Atlantic.

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