Death by Midnight (Dean Steele Mystery Thriller Book 8) by A.J. Rivers

Death by Midnight (Dean Steele Mystery Thriller Book 8) by A.J. Rivers

Author:A.J. Rivers [Rivers, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A.J. Rivers
Published: 2024-05-24T00:00:00+00:00


Celeste goes into the living room and comes back with a young man clutching a camera. He looks slightly confused as he reaches out to shake the hand I’m offering him.

“This is Seth Powers,” Celeste says. Then she heads to the other side of the room with another officer to give her initial statement.

“I already talked to one of the officers,” he says. “Is there something wrong?”

“No,” I tell him. “I’m Dean Steele. I’m a private investigator consulting on this case. This is Detective Peter Bronson. He’s heading up the investigation. We’re asking for your help.”

“My help?” Seth asks. “I’m happy to do anything I can, but I’m not sure…”

“Your footage,” I say. “Celeste told us that you were taking video of tonight’s event.”

“Oh,” he says. “Yes, I was. I’m a content producer. I have an online video channel that covers events, activities, and news around the community. I was covering the festivities today and got some footage of the party. I didn’t record the entire thing, but you’re more than welcome to everything I have.”

“Anything you have could be useful,” I tell him. “We don’t even know what we’re looking for exactly at this moment. We just want to see everything we possibly can that happened at the party.”

“Sure.”

“First, though, we’ve been talking to a few people about a specific guest at the party tonight. We haven’t been able to track him down and would like to talk to him about what he might have seen,” the detective says deftly, carefully skirting around any suspicion we have so that it doesn’t start to spread around.

“All right,” Seth says, looking back and forth between us. “Who is it?”

“He’s been described as wearing an elaborate peacock mask,” I say. “Does that sound familiar to you?”

“A peacock mask? Most people were wearing masks tonight, and I’m pretty sure I saw a few that had peacock feathers,” Seth says.

“Apparently, this was a really elaborate mask,” Bronson says. “A whole headdress version, like a hat.”

“Yes,” Seth says. “Now that I think about it, I did see that. I’m pretty sure I got him on camera, but I didn’t get a chance to interview him. I wanted to talk to him about his mask, but it seemed like I couldn’t quite catch up with him. Like maybe he didn’t want to be on camera.”

“So, you didn’t talk to him?” I ask.

“I exchanged a few quick words with him. Nothing significant. I asked if he was from Twilight Cove, and he told me no, that he was visiting a friend. I was going to ask him more, but someone else got my attention, and he walked away when I turned to talk to them. Like I said, though, it could have just been that he didn’t want to be on camera. Some people are really camera shy and just don’t want to talk in front of one,” he says. “I’m sure I have some footage of him though, if you want to see what he looked like and was doing.



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