Howtown: A Henry Rios Novel (Henry Rios Mysteries Book 3) by Michael Nava
Author:Michael Nava [Nava, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Persigo Press
Published: 2019-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
On my way out of the office, I stopped by the receptionistâs desk to check for phone messages and found a folder that had been delivered earlier in the evening. Tearing it open, I found a Xeroxed copy of a log with a note scrawled on a slip of paper attached to it. The note, from Rossi, said it was a copy of the evidence locker log showing the time that Morrow had booked the film. The log showed that heâd booked the film at 10:45. I thought back to his testimony and calculated that this meant he would have driven back to the police station, filed his report for the search warrant and booked the film within two hours of the search. That didnât seem unusually long, considering the paperwork that must have been involved. Disappointed, I folded the paper and slipped it into my coat pocket.
There was also a phone message, from Josh. Calling him back from the hotel gave me something to look forward to as I headed out the door.
As I walked down the Parkway toward the hotel a black man wearing a dirty red kerchief around his head, eyes downcast, stumbled toward me, stopped and asked for a quarter. He looked younger than I, and it was clear from his ruined physique that heâd been a big man once. Now his skin hung from him like a dirty, oversized coat. His shoulders stooped as if theyâd been broken and he stank of the rankest alcohol.
âWhatâs your name?â I asked him.
Startled, he glanced up at me. âJames. James Harrison.â
âNice night, isnât it, James.â
âHomeless people donât have no nice nights,â he replied.
âThe Bible says the meek will inherit the earth.â
âShit, ainât gonna be worth having when rich people done with it.â
âYeah, youâre probably right,â I said, reaching for my wallet to give him a dollar. All I had were tens and twenties. Somehow, turning him down because I didnât have change seemed wrong so I gave him a ten.
He looked at the bill and asked, âWhatâs your name?â
âHenry,â I replied.
âGot a brother named Henry.â
I smiled. âWhereâs he?â
âFolsom.â With that, he nodded and headed down the street toward the neon sign. I went off in the other direction.
Entering the hotel, I found another message from Josh and a second message from Ben Vega, asking me to call him. Too tired to speculate on why the young cop might have called, I tucked both messages into my pocket and headed toward the elevators with nothing more ambitious on my mind than a hot shower and a sitcom. As I pressed the elevator button, a hand clamped my shoulder. I shook it off and turned around.
âJosh, what the hell are you doing here?â
He wore khaki shorts and a blue button-down shirt, open to expose the crystal heâd taken to wearing on a leather loop around his neck.
âWaiting for you,â he said wearily. âIâve been here since nine but they wouldnât let me up into your room. I tried to call.â
âI know.
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