Polar Bear Dawn: A Detective Bernadette Callahan Mystery (Detective Bernadette Callahan of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Book 1) by Lyle Nicholson

Author:Lyle Nicholson [Nicholson, Lyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Red Cuillin Publishing
Published: 2013-10-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five

On Monday, Bernadette was in her office at RCMP headquarters, Fort McMurray. She had arrived early at the detachment, after her usual stop at the Tim Horton’s drive-through. The drive-through was open twenty-four hours, and they knew her well. Her morning ritual was a large double cream double sugar coffee with a whole wheat bagel and strawberry cream cheese.

This morning she had added a honey cruller and a maple dip—for later. Later… arrived about a half hour after she finished the bagel. The honey cruller was history. The second doughnut she had pushed to the far side of her desk. She was ignoring it…for now.

The weekend had been long. The CSIS had arrived from Edmonton mid-afternoon on Saturday, and another team of intelligence officers were on their way from Ottawa and would be in Fort McMurray by noon. She would need inordinate amounts of sugar and intestinal fortitude to put up with all the meetings.

Bernadette had been in a closed-door meeting with two young intelligence officers for all of Saturday afternoon and most of Sunday. They had debriefed her on all of the calls she had had with the media in Anchorage and her discussions with Detective Mueller in Prudhoe Bay, as well as her talks with Pierre Beaumont at Synthetic Oil.

The two young officers had both been bright, well dressed, and detailed to a point that made Bernadette want to scream. She was detailed herself in her investigations, but the two officers had taken things to degrees she had never experienced. They had wanted to know every nuance of every conversation, every small detail of what she thought the other person meant, and how exactly she had come to her conclusions.

The one intelligence officer was Antonello De Luca, and he went by Anton. He was a good-looking Italian Canadian in his mid-twenties with dark, curly black hair, dark chestnut eyes and smooth brown skin. He could have come off some Italian pizza commercial. The other intelligence officer she thought just as yummy. His name was Alexio Alexandrou, and he went by Alex. He was an athletic and handsome Greek Canadian. The CSIS was churning out good-looking men. If they hadn’t been so damn detailed, she would have found them even more attractive; however, she thought she might have a cougar complex, and had decided to keep her hormones in check.

She had given them the details of her phone call with Detective Mueller regarding the death of Frank Starko in Prudhoe. The death by polar bear had only mildly amused the pair. They had been more interested in Starko’s background.

Alex was a computer science graduate. He had gotten a bead on Starko in seconds and found that Frank Gregory Starko was an ex-marine with an exemplary record. He had risen to the rank of sergeant and did tours in Iran and Afghanistan, and then he had been hired by several private security firms, where he was well paid. Banks recorded hundreds of thousands of dollars deposited into his account.

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