Never-ending-snake by Thurlo David

Author:Thurlo, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

TWELVE

It was after one when they walked through the doors of the station. Ella glanced at her partner. “Find Joe and have him meet me at my office in ten minutes. I’m going to talk to Big Ed.”

“All right,” Justine replied.

“Also, I want the whole team in my office in a half hour.”

Ella turned down the hall and headed to Big Ed’s office. The chief was just finishing a phone conversation when she knocked on his door and stepped inside.

Ella updated him. “Once we get an address for Carl Perry, I’m going to take part in the takedown and sit in on the questioning.”

Big Ed leaned back in his seat. “Do whatever it takes to clear Adam—or get me the information that conclusively proves he’s guilty. The pressure’s really coming down on this one, Shorty,” he said. “And I don’t want to hear that the Farmington reporter broke the story before we closed our case.”

“You’ve already heard that he’s been talking to Sergeant Neskahi’s sister, haven’t you?” she asked, studying his expression.

“Yeah. Then he spoke to my wife,” he said. “He found out where I lived and showed up on our doorstep,” he added, biting off each syllable.

Ella could feel his anger. She didn’t blame him. “How did Hattery get your address?”

“I don’t know, but if I find out that one of our people—or a relative of theirs—gave it to him, I promise you, heads will roll.”

“None of us here would ever disclose that kind of information. You know that, Chief. But depending on how he phrased things when he spoke to Joe’s sister . . .”

“Pretending to know more than he did, then letting the subject fill in the gaps,” Big Ed said with a nod. “Yeah, I’m way ahead of you.”

“I was going to meet Joe in my office. Shall I have him come here so we can both talk to him?”

“Do it,” Big Ed said.

Ella went to her office, found Joe waiting, and walked back with him to the chief’s office.

Visibly uncomfortable, Joe sat down, looked at Big Ed, then at Ella. “This is about my sister, right?”

Big Ed nodded, but said nothing.

“That Hattery creep kept joining her for coffee breaks and lunch at the hospital cafeteria. She was flattered that a television personality found her interesting, and figured it was okay to trust him after he made it sound as if the department was keeping him in the loop about the case. I set her straight on that, and pressed her to remember everything she’d told him, but she assured me that all she did was make a few comments here and there,” Joe said, then shook his head. “Either way, she won’t be talking to him anymore.”

“He showed up at my door,” Big Ed said.

Joe’s mouth fell open. “You think Mavis told him where you live? But how, she doesn’t know herself—I don’t think.”

“Hattery’s a skilled game player,” Ella said. “Now we need to figure out how much he knows. Maybe Mavis can help us there.

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