Jon's Downright Ridiculous Shooting Case (Jon's Mysteries Case Book 1) by AJ Sherwood

Author:AJ Sherwood [Sherwood, AJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-22T04:00:00+00:00

11

Monday morning meant back to work, although fortunately my favorite captain pulled through for me. Solomon cited scheduling conflicts and tried pushing things off further, but I think Olivia saw through his bullshit too, as a tick of anger pulsed along her lines. Under her direct orders, she gathered Alice Thompson, her sister Lisa, and her brother Chase in for interviews. Technically not interrogations, as we weren’t charging them—yet –with anything, but very pointed interviews. She shoved Solomon into a chair in the corner of the room and ordered him to keep his mouth shut.

I stood on the other side of the double-sided mirror, as usual, Donovan holding the walkie-talkie for me as Olivia conducted the interviews herself. She put her grandmotherly smile to use as she sat with the pretty, vain Alice Thompson.

“Ms. Thompson, thank you so much for coming in and going over a few things with me. I’m sorry for the location. It’s the only quiet spot to be had in the station these days.”

“Yes, well, that’s okay I guess,” she said with an uneasy look around, her arms loosely hugging her own waist. She wore another sundress today, pure white, with a demure neckline, her hair gently curling around her shoulders. I had a feeling the outfit was to encourage us to think of her as the angel, the victim. Pity it didn’t work on me. “I’m not in trouble, though, am I?”

“No, you’re not,” Olivia assured her gently.

“Not yet,” I muttered darkly.

Donovan choked on a laugh. “She looking guilty to you?”

“No, she’s looking petty and self-absorbed to me,” I answered with begrudging honesty. “But just because she doesn’t look guilty doesn’t mean she hasn’t done anything wrong. She may just not feel guilty about it.”

Olivia pulled the note Alice Thompson had given us out of the manila folder, protected by a clear evidence bag, and slid it across so the girl could see it. “You recognize this?”

“Yes, that’s the first extortion note I got.” Alice barely gave it more than a glance. With such an easy thing to answer, her body language relaxed, meridian lines calming as her nerves died down a little. “I gave it to those two detectives who asked to see it.”

“And you have no idea where it came from?”

“I assume it came from Chen Li, the bastard,” Alice responded furiously, lips peeling up in an ugly sneer.

I blinked. “Huh. She’s now convinced it’s Chen.”

Donovan lifted the walkie-talkie to my mouth, and I repeated that for Olivia’s sake.

Not a single whit of her expression changed to let on that she’d heard me. “And there’s no other person you can think of? No one else who would send you this note?”

“No, why?”

Strange. “Truth. She doesn’t suspect anyone else.”

“Ms. Thompson, I know this might upset you, but there’s people who think you’re producing the notes on your own.”

Alice slammed a hand against the table, making it rattle loudly. “I did not!”

“Truth again,” I said slowly, puzzling this out. “Olivia, it’s not her.”

Olivia made soothing noises and waved her back into the chair.

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