Horoscope by Claudio Ruggeri

Author:Claudio Ruggeri [Ruggeri, Claudio]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781507124352
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Published: 2015-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

26th December

Inspector Parisi’s car reached Germano’s house some minutes earlier than expected, however the Commissioner was already waiting for him leaned under the porch, watching the snow falling down.

They reached the office safe and sound, despite the continuous skids of every car who moved on such an asphalt.

When Germano got off in front of the police station door, he found a beautiful surprise: his car, unrecognizable only some hours before, had been freed from snow by his colleagues and was ready to be used.

After a quick coffee they immediately settled down to work.

The first name they analysed was Aldo Verri, a radiologist, convicted some months before for drug trafficking. He had declared to the Marshal of Carabinieri who was questioning him, that with his wage he couldn’t afford all instalments he had to pay, so he had decided to invent a second job.

Nevertheless he was still prisoner, so he couldn’t be the next victim of the killer.

The second person in their list was Francesco Sica, a stretcher-bearer denounced by a colleague for stalking. The investigations were still in progress and there was no indication that he was involved in the current inquiry of the Police.

However he was still free, so Germano didn’t feel up to definitively eliminate him from the list.

The part concerning the three nurses, actually, was a single investigation. In fact the three people, not completely satisfied of the wage they received from the hospital, had organized a wide circle of illegal betting, probably of more than one hundred thousand Euros a month. The judge feared that the group could tamper with the evidence, so he had remanded them in custody in prison.

In this case too, the fact that they were prisoners left them out, at least at the moment, from the list of the possible targets of the killer.

The second-last to be examined was a doctor, Gianni Braghesi, charged with having taken kickbacks from some patients in order to let them skip the waiting list. He was under house arrest.

The Commissioner’s curiosity increased when he read that the doctor’s specialization was oncology: the cancer.

After a quick look, doctor Braghesi’s file was placed next to the one of the stretcher-bearer, in order to analyse it more in depth later.

The last case concerned a cleaner of a Roman hospital, but in this case too Germano closed the folder quite immediately. Piero Massa had a heart attack some days after the charge and died.

So the Commissioner resumed the two files he didn’t have rejected yet, the stretcher-bearer and the doctor.

As the search had provided only a few results, the two policemen decided to directly contact the two suspects and, after having received all necessary authorizations, they immediately phoned them.

The first one was Francesco Sica.

“Hello.”

“Good morning, Mr. Sica, excuse me if I disturb you, I’m the Commissioner....”

“I already told everything, damn! Today it’s holiday and...”

“Please listen to me! First of all my name is Vincent Germano and you never spoke with me. Besides, the subject I need to broach with you is in your interest.

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