Or the Bull Kills You by Jason Webster

Author:Jason Webster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2011-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

The rain had stopped and he decided to walk to Hilario’s place. The sun was casting an intense streak of light over the city through a break in the thick clouds and the smells of lunch were beginning to drift out of the kitchen windows of a thousand red-brick apartment buildings: fried fish, meat stews, boiled beef with chickpeas and potatoes. Cámara pulled out his phone and dialled a number.

‘Huerta’s lot have had a look at that drainpipe, chief,’ Torres said as soon as he picked up.

‘Anything?’

‘Someone’s been up and down it; they can tell by the scratch marks. But no prints and no DNA. Could be just kids messing about, but they reckon whoever’s done it was there quite recently – hardly any oxidisation underneath where the paint’s been scraped.’

‘All right. Anything else?’

‘No, pretty quiet here today – apart from the Fallas racket outside, that is. Pardo’s doing his disappearing act again. Ibarra’s working through the statements we got from the Albufera fishermen. Sánchez is on his day off, and I’ve got Montero and Vargas talking to members of Blanco’s team – see if there’s anything we’ve missed.’

‘All right. I want you to look into the Ramírez family business. And the other top bull breeders in the country while you’re at it. I’m particularly interested in any suggestions of dodgy breeding practices.’

He could hear Torres scribbling notes at the other end.

‘What, like nobbling the bulls?’

‘That kind of thing,’ Cámara said. ‘You’ll probably hit a wall of denial if you ask people directly. Just see what you can come up with.’

‘Right you are. Thinking of going round there yourself?’

‘What? To the Ramírez farm?’ Cámara paused. ‘I’ll be back later on,’ he said, and rang off.

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