Sandford, John - Virgil Flowers 01 - Dark Of the Moon by Sandford John

Author:Sandford, John [Sandford, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-12T18:32:21+00:00

"You'll still get to see Jesse."

"She's got me if she wants me," Stryker said. He seemed puzzled by it all. "I looked in her eyes last night, in that candlelight, and I thought my heart was gonna explode."

"Where're you going tonight?" Virgil asked.

Stryker shrugged: "I don't know. Jesus, thinking of someplace interesting just about kills you. I can't take her out to the club. I'm afraid to go to Tijuana Jack's or anyplace in Worthington - it's just too close, and I really don't want to be seen out on the town. Not yet."

"Life sucks, then you die."

"Easy on the die stuff," Stryker said. "I'm a little nervous about sneaking up on Feur."

* * *

Virgil followed her past the kitchen into the tiny living room. Reynolds wasn't overweight, but rather was morbidly obese. Virgil thought she must weigh three hundred pounds, though she was no more than five-four. The house stank of starch and fat, and doors and windows not opened. In the living room, a plate with three cold surviving French fries sat next to an open jar of mayonnaise. She picked up one of the French fries, dipped it in mayonnaise, pointed it at a plush-magenta La-Z-Boy, said, "Sit down," and ate the fry.

Virgil sat down and said, "I'm talking to people who had relationships with Bill Judd Sr. back in the late sixties and seventies. I'm not trying to mess anybody up, I'm trying to figure out if there was anything back then that could have led to these murders. All the people were of the same age ..."

"Seems like you're a generation too late, then. They're all twenty years older than us girls were."

"Yeah, but you're what I got," Virgil said. "Let me ask you this, privately between the two of us. Did the Gleasons or the Schmidts or the Johnstones have anything to do with ... this whole relationship thing with Judd?"

She was taken aback: "The Johnstones? Are the Johnstones dead?"

"No, no. I should have made that clear. It's just that they were people of this age who might have been involved in something that would snap back - we're thinking it had to be serious. Revenge, something that festered. Since Gleason was a doctor, and a coroner sometimes, and Schmidt was the sheriff, and Johnstone was the undertaker ..."

"I see where you're going," she said. She thought about it, and then said, "The only things I can think of, are the Jerusalem artichoke business, and then the sex. Maybe somebody's husband just found out about the sex and couldn't stand the thought, but this was a looonngg time ago. People get over stuff like sex: it's just a little squirt in the dark. No big deal."

"Some people think of it as a little more than that," Virgil said. "Michelle told me that it might have been the best part of her life. The most fun, anyway."

A wrinkle spread across the lower part of Reynolds' face, and Virgil realized that she was smiling. "She was a crazy one," Reynolds said.

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