Knife Edge (A Dead Cold Mystery Book 27) by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

Eleven

Eight o’clock the next morning the call came from the chief while we were having breakfast:

“John, good morning, I hope I haven’t woken you.”

“No, sir, we’ve been up for a while. Any news on the court order?”

“I spoke to Judge Henderson. He’s usually pretty sound. He has signed an order for you to have access to the boy for as long as you need, reviewable after a week. Obviously that is subject to normal lawful limitations.”

“A week?” I put the phone on speaker and laid it on the table. Dehan froze with a forkful of bacon and eggs halfway to her mouth and stared at me. “That won’t be much use, sir. The kid has been catatonic for about six years. We not only need access to him, we need to get him into therapy.”

“Quite so, John, but as he explained to me, he can’t make an order as sweeping and far reaching as that without a hearing. He would have to make the child—though he is in fact a young man now—a ward of court, when the boy already has responsible parents. He can’t do that without very good reason; reason which must be heard and proven in open court.”

“So where do we go from here?”

“The first step, John, is for you to collect the order, deliver it to the Mitchells and see the boy. On the strength of what you observe there, we may or may not be able to apply for a hearing in which we request the court make an order requiring the parents to provide the boy with appropriate therapy, to be approved by the court.”

I sighed and rubbed my face. “OK, thank you, sir. We’re on our way.”

Dehan mopped the egg from her plate with a hunk of bread and spoke through a mouthful of breakfast.

“Pick up the order, go talk to Marcus, then pick up your car.”

“Makes sense to me.”

But it didn’t work out that way. Halfway down Morris Park Avenue, with Dehan in the driving seat of her Toyota Corolla, my cell rang. It was Maria, the desk sergeant at the station.

“John, you and Carmen need to get to 1001 Elder Avenue, corner of Bruckner Boulevard.”

I frowned. Dehan glanced at me. “What’s it about, Maria? We’re on our way to the station. We need to collect an order from the chief...”

She cut across me. “I’m thinking this has priority, handsome. Sergeant Gunther responded to a nine-one-one just twenty minutes ago. He called in and told me to get you. He said he thought it was your case.”

I was visualizing the map in my head and sighed. “Thanks, Maria.”

I hung up and put my phone away. To Dehan I said, “Elder and Bruckner.”

I heard her swear softly. We followed Morris Park to the end, crossed the tracks and took the Bronx River Avenue to East 173rd and Boynton Avenue. At the end of Boynton we found the end of Elder Avenue, the boulevard, two patrol cars, an ambulance, a crime scene van and Frank, the ME’s, beaten-up old Ford.

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