Lazy Bird, a Seth and Ava Mystery by Claudia Hall Christian

Author:Claudia Hall Christian [Christian, Claudia Hall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cook Street Publishing
Published: 2022-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

Ten

Dr. Dawkins had kept his word.

He’d found Nelson and given him the details of who he knew that used a Smith and Wesson .357. The two had gotten along so famously that Nelson was invited home to meet Dr. Dawkins’ wife and family. Nelson retrieved the keys and a map to the property. He took DNA from Dr. Dawkins’ son so that they would have comparative DNA without triggering alarms that would uncover Dr. Dawkins’ location to those who wished him dead.

Because of the weird interest in this case and the fact that she was in the hospital, it took Ava and Seth more than a week to assemble a team of people she trusted to do the forensics of the cabin.

The plan was that they would spend today and possibly tomorrow collecting samples at this “shack.” In exchange, they had an all-expense paid week in the gorgeous Colorado Mountains. Their families were due in a few days.

The nurse helped her into a wheelchair and wheeled her out to an outdoor patio where the team was assembled. Ava looked at the team she and Seth had created.

Captain Ferguson, Seth’s good friend and Ava’s first boss at the Denver Police’s Crime Scene Unit had taken a week’s vacation to come to help. He was going to run the scene. He’d arrived with three of Ava’s friends who were also his best forensic s-scene technicians. Ava’s childhood friend, Denver Police SWAT Captain Jet Martinez, had arrived with two of his most trusted officers to act as protection for what he called “the forensic geeks.” Bob had selected two people who’d retired from the FBI forensics team. His two people picked two other people who they felt were trustworthy.

From Ava’s team, Nelson was responsible for organizing the collection of their forensic samples and Bob was running the technical acquisition of forensics. Leslie came down to find what others had missed. Joan had agreed to stay in Denver to keep her FBI-chief husband out of the loop. Fran was staying in the lab to get ready to process everything they found.

Ava looked around at this dream team of nice, honest people and smiled.

“Anyone have any questions?” Ava asked.

The people looked at each other and shook their heads. She knew from Jet that they’d all gone out last night and had a great time. They’d met with Captain Ferguson this morning and each received their assignments.

“Thank you for coming all this way to help,” Ava said. “I can’t promise that this will be an easy task. I will say that you’ll never find a finer group of people than the ones in this room.”

“Good luck!” Ava said.

The people cheered and started out of the room. Seth knelt down to her.

“Are you sure you’re okay here?” Seth asked.

“I’m fine,” Ava said. “Jet’s staying here to protect me. We’re going to start my escape from this place and meet you at the condo.”

Seth kissed her lips. Their eyes held.

“C’mon, O’Malley,” Captain Ferguson said. “We got work to do.

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