Fallen Tide by Wayne Stinnett

Author:Wayne Stinnett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Down Island Press
Published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“How the hell does he manage to manipulate me into these things?” I asked Linda when we stepped off the Revenge the next morning.

“Deuce doesn’t manipulate, Dad,” Kim said, following us up the dock toward the bar. “It’s who you are.”

“Who I was,” I corrected her.

“No, it’s who you are and always will be,” Kim said. “If someone’s in trouble and needs help, you just somehow end up being the one.”

The two CSIs had worked gathering evidence well into the night. A couple of hours after sunset, while the CSIs were working, Deuce and I had sat down with the CID and FBI guys. Deuce had been impressed with the amount of knowledge the security man, Waldrup, had provided. He’d also been impressed enough by his stoic demeanor, considering he’d just identified the body of his cousin, that he’d invited Waldrup to sit in.

By then, Deuce had full files on both Waldrup and Parsons, as well as the Minniches and the Albrights. Neither couple had anything in their backgrounds that had jumped out at either of us before we sat down with the agents last night. It turned out that Waldrup was an Army Ranger first lieutenant. He’d been severely wounded in the liberation of Kuwait in 1991 and lost a leg just below the knee. This surprised me, as he didn’t appear to be injured. During his recuperation, he’d been promoted to captain and discharged for medical reasons.

After we’d compared notes and Doc Fredric had confirmed the obvious cause of death of the couple on the yacht, I’d moved the Revenge over to Rusty’s place. Mostly to get Pescador away from the scene. His constant whining and barking at every sound was a constant confirmation that it was him pictured with the couple in the photo Parsons had shown me.

I was now faced with the possibility that if the couple was found alive, I’d lose my dog. Pescador has been with me through a lot and actually killed a man who’d not only stabbed me, but was one of the ones who’d murdered my wife.

The CSIs hadn’t come up with anything startling that we hadn’t already known, or surmised. Parsons and Binkowski had agreed to meet us this morning at the Anchor to go over the CSI findings, so we’d called it a night just before midnight.

Holding the door open for Linda and Kim, I saw that both agents, along with Waldrup, were sitting at two large tables, pushed together in the corner. Marty and the forensics woman were there as well. Rusty brought another pot of coffee as the three of us sat down, Marty holding the chair next to him for Kim. The suspicious look Kim gave Meg Stewart didn’t escape my attention.

A moment later, Captain Hammonds came in carrying a thick folder and sat down on Marty’s other side, handing the folder to Deuce. “Got the report from our CSI team at four this morning. I’ve gone through everything. We matched prints found at the scene to both couples and all four crew, eliminating them.

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