Ghost of a Chance by Dan Willis

Author:Dan Willis [Willis, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-18T22:00:00+00:00

Gino’s was a little hole in the wall diner with a short counter and a half-dozen booths. They catered to the beat cops who came in to grab a sandwich or a bowl of chowder. Alex was never one to be picky where food was concerned, and he liked that the proprietor, an older woman named Lucy, never skimped on the meat in her sandwiches.

“Two hot pastramis on white,” he ordered once he sat down at the counter.

Lucy wore a floral dress under a stained apron and her white hair was bound up behind her in a bun. She looked to be about fifty with a lanky, slender build and a rough but smiling face. Nodding at Alex, she took two ready-made sandwiches from a cooler and dropped them on a buttered grill.

“Cup of joe?” she asked, picking up the steel coffee pot from the far side of the griddle.

Alex checked the handful of change in his pocket before nodding.

The bell on the door jingled behind Alex but he was too hungry to care.

“There you are,” Danny’s exasperated voice assaulted him. A moment later them man himself was pulling on his sleeve. “I’ve been looking all over town for you.”

Alex picked up his coffee cup and sipped it, relishing the energy it was giving him.

“Well, you found me,” he said. “Pull up a stool.”

That was meant to be a joke as the stools were bolted to the floor and therefore, immovable.

“Get up,” Danny said, still pulling on his sleeve. “We’ve got to go.”

“What?”

Danny’s usually smiling face showed irritation and excitement in a fairly equal mix. He wore his gray suit with his gold detective’s badge clipped to the outside breast pocket. Danny was very proud of his status as a police detective.

“There’s a break in the case,” he said, still tugging at Alex’s sleeve, “but I need you and your bag of tricks.”

The empty pit in Alex’s stomach started to churn. He remembered his recent string of failures with finding runes. He hadn’t had one that actually worked since Hannah Cunningham came to his office three days ago and he definitely didn’t want to crap out in front of Danny.

“Can I at least eat?” he stalled. “I’m starving.”

Danny pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed.

“You remember how I told you that the stuff that was stolen was taken off delivery trucks?” he said, clearly not wanting to have to stop and explain.

Alex shrugged noncommittally. He hadn’t been sleeping well before last night and he wasn’t sure if Danny had told him that or not.

“Well, we caught a break. They found one of the missing trucks,” he said. “It broke down in the Outer Ring by the rail yards.”

“Was the stolen stuff still on the truck?”

Danny’s face split into a wide grin and he shook his head.

“No,” he said. “That means that the thieves unloaded it somewhere.”

Alex was nodding along now, seeing the way Danny’s line of thought was running.

“So as long as they don’t move that truck, I can use it as an anchor and track it back to where it’s been,” he said.

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