Double Jeopardy (A Rain City Legal Thriller Book 4) by Stephen Penner

Author:Stephen Penner [Penner, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inkubator Books
Published: 2024-05-19T00:00:00+00:00

His last meeting was with his partner in crime, so to speak, Rebecca Sommers. Although, if the course of action he needed to take did actually include committing a crime, he was inclined not to bring Sommers into it. He was a low-rent solo practitioner. If he went to jail, he could hand out business cards. Sommers was a high-rent real estate agent. If she went to jail, she could lose everything: her reputation, her license, her entire way of life.

Hopefully, they could think of something that wasn’t criminal.

“Break into that warehouse,” was Sommers’s first suggestion. “Axis of Evil Import-Export, or whatever.”

“Axis Global Import-Export.” Raine had looked it up again before their meeting. Great minds think alike.

After dinner at a fancy Italian restaurant with Sawyer, lunch the next day with Sommers was at a simple Vietnamese sandwich shop in the International District, just a couple of blocks from Raine’s office. The perfect place for bánh mì sandwiches and criminal conspiracies.

“Why them?” Raine asked. He thought he knew. He wanted to see if he was right.

“Well, the way I figure it”—Sommers leaned back and rubbed her chin thoughtfully—“we know that Armand guy was lying. Those numbers and letters on that scrap of paper from Tommy’s apartment were definitely an address, and his address. He knew that, too. You could tell.”

Raine nodded. He had the same impression.

“So if we know he was lying,” Sommers continued, “that means he had something to lie about. That business is the only thing we have connecting Tommy to anything illegal.”

“Other than recreational drug use,” Raine pointed out.

“He wasn’t murdered because of recreational drug use,” Sommers said, dismissing the idea. “He was murdered because he knew something. Something someone didn’t want out. Something illegal. And that place is definitely doing something illegal.”

“Tommy probably saw something when he was making a delivery there,” Raine surmised. “That would explain the address, the cash, and his death. He delivered whatever it was, got paid, then got the hell out of there but not before seeing something he shouldn’t have.”

“If we can figure out what that something was,” Sommers continued, “you can give that to your prosecutor and get your case dismissed.”

Raine frowned. “I’m not sure how it connects to his death sufficiently to convince her to dismiss it.”

“Of course you don’t,” Sommers answered. “We haven’t gone there yet.”

Raine had to laugh at the undeniable logic.

“You said your prosecutor wants to dismiss the case, right?” Sommers pressed him.

“She said she doesn’t care if she dismisses it,” Raine clarified, “so long as it doesn’t get dismissed on my motion for vindictive prosecution.”

“So give her something, anything,” Sommers said, “and let her figure out how it leads to a dismissal.”

Raine sighed. He knew she was right. He knew what he had to do. And he knew what he had to say.

“Sorry, Rebecca. I’m just not convinced,” he lied. “I’ll have to think of something else.”

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