Parts Unknown (Chris Lyon Thrillers Book 1) by Craig McDonald

Author:Craig McDonald [McDonald, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Night Town Books, LTD
Published: 2012-07-27T11:00:00+00:00

46

Audra’s father stood with his back to the door, pleading with her to come to her senses.

The man, Wesley, stood in front of her, his veins standing out on his neck and forehead. Wesley yelled again, up in Audra’s face, screaming that she must come to her senses.

Her father was begging Audra to confess that Chris Lyon was deluded and hounding innocent people.

Wesley was echoing Audra’s father, whining about all the signals being sent back to him from a dozen different directions that Chris was prying into the affairs and history of the Wesley family.

Father’s friend was freshly in Audra’s face now, apoplectic, screaming that his former brother-in-law, Gilbert Baker, didn’t deserve the harassment and the intrusions that Audra herself was heaping on the Columbus coroner.

Wesley was blond, masculine...tall and strident. He said, “Lyon sees money and picks up some old, dead rumors and instantly concocts some grand conspiracy theory that the police would laugh in his face for if he shared it.”

“Lyon’s a nothing, sweetie,” Aaron Parnell chimed in. “You’re risking your career tacking your cart to his so-called star. Lyon is clouding your reason. He’s Cedartown white trash. He’s no good for you.”

“Yeah,” Audra said, “You think he’s bad for me because he isn’t like us. You’re right. Chris has less money and more conscience than either of you. Father, Baker knows more than he’s telling about the Butcher killings! Jesus Christ, Father! Baker was in on the original autopsies. He suppressed evidence; he’s faked information. I think he actually committed some of those killings in Cleveland all those years ago. He may be killing these people now! And the presence of your friend here is tantamount to an admission of Baker’s guilt—and maybe the Wesley family’s guilt—in decades worth of murders!”

Wesley was grinning, trying to look affable, but coming off as a well-coiffed death’s head.

“You don’t understand what you’re doing here, missy,” Wesley said. “My family had to put up with crazy talk like this from Ness and that stupid old Irish cop for years. Detectives destroyed my family a generation ago. Their badgering put my mother in the ground. Their stupid, wrong theories wrecked a whole generation of my family. I’m not going to see history repeat itself because some psycho is loose in Columbus and a man who married into, and divorced his way out of my family, is helping the police to investigate. Not because you have some loose circumstantial ties that have led you to laughable and erroneous conclusions.”

“Oh, I’m right enough about all this,” Audra said, stepping into Wesley.

“Bullshit,” he snarled back at her. “I’m not going to let you and some over-zealous, poor-boy, southern Ohio reporter with an axe to grind make his name by destroying the name of my family. Jesus, Audra, you’re one of us. You know how those people like to tear our kind down. Lyon’s vindictive. He’s petty. He’s a little man.”

Audra shook her head. She drained the dregs of her wine and set her glass down so hard the stem snapped.

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