New Beginnings (The Genesis Project Series Book 2) by Greg Van Arsdale

Author:Greg Van Arsdale [Van Arsdale, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-10T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Sam Grady was deep in concentration, busily studying the results of the Luminol blood test Sue had conducted earlier that morning when the phone rang. He snatched it off its cradle.

“Grady,” he said.

“Sam,” a man’s husky voice crackled from the cheap phone, “this is Charlie Grissom.” Charlie worked at the Twenty-Ninth Precinct and had been a close friend of Sam’s father.

Sam’s voice lifted at the sound of his old friend. “Hey, Charlie, what’s up, man? You ever get that golf swing of yours straightened out? The last time we played, you were hooking so bad, I thought you were gonna run out of balls before we got to the ninth hole.”

“Oh, ha, ha. Funny, wise guy. Your day’s coming, though. Wait till you get to be my age. Then we’ll see who laughs last. You wait and see.”

The pause in the conversation told Sam that the time for jokes was over. Charlie had something serious on his mind.

“I hear you’ve been working on the Kornmiller case,” Grissom began.

“Yeah, what about it?”

“I had a delightful chat with a guy who says he knows something about it. He’s a phone hacker, going by the name of Merle Montgomery. Says he overheard two people talking about this Kornmiller. I was about to throw the bum out, but he insisted he talk to someone about the murder. I guess he had a momentary flash of decency and felt it was his public duty to tell someone, so I let him talk.”

Sam straightened up. “Go on.”

“According to this guy, the murder was a botched setup. A man and a woman talked about what went wrong at some hotel. He never heard the man’s name, but he remembered the woman’s and one other, someone they paid to do the job. Her name was Judith. The man they paid was named Enrique. You interested?”

“Hold him for me, Charlie. I’ll be right there.” Sam slammed the phone down, snatched up all the photographs, piled them into the report folder, and headed downstairs to Sue’s office.

“You were right,” he said as she looked up. “The Luminol test proves somebody was standing in front of Enrique when that shot was fired. He was definitely murdered.”

He laid the thick report on her desk with a sense of quiet urgency. Making certain no one else was within earshot, he motioned her closer. “Look, Sue, I’m not sure where this thing’s going to lead or who’s involved. I’ve got a hunch it may even be one of our own people. So, until we have all the facts, it’s best we keep what we find to ourselves. Nobody but you and me knows about any of this. Got it?”

She nodded, picked up the folder, and locked it in a metal file cabinet. “So where are you off to in such a hurry?”

“I’m going over to the Twenty-Ninth. Charlie’s got a guy who can link Judith Neumann to Enrique. It’s the break we’ve been waiting for. There’s another man involved, so, like I said, keep it between us until I find out more.

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