Simon Says... Ride by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9781773364797
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

When Kate woke up the next morning, her eyes opened, and her brain clicked on. To think that the two recent murders of Candy and Paula were connected to the death of Sally on her bike was something completely different. And it surprised Kate that the killer had positioned Candy’s body near Sally’s crime scene. Was that deliberate or accidental? Were there two killers?

At the same time, Kate wondered how much of Candy’s death scene was a copycat of Sally’s, and how much might be that the killer had seen Candy and Paula at Sally’s crime scene and had chosen his next victim then. Just so many options. She bolted out of bed and dressed quickly, realizing again that she still didn’t have any groceries and couldn’t keep existing on the leftovers from Simon.

She walked to work, her steps rapid and purposeful. Her mind buzzed with possible connections, possible links. But she needed to track them down and see if she could toss some of them out. Maybe if she got lucky, another autopsy would have been completed by now.

She thought about turning around, grabbing her vehicle, and heading up to the morgue, but changed her mind, as she should wait until the coroner came back with his reports for her. She stopped, picked up one more of those absolutely lovely pretzels that she really shouldn’t be eating all the time, and carried it into the station, still warm and steaming.

Grabbing some coffee, she sat down at her desk and brought up her emails. No autopsy report. It wasn’t even eight o’clock, so it was early yet. With her notepad, she wrote down all the possible scenarios she could come up with. Then she set up some searches. Way more computing power should be here than there was, but she would do what she could. She wondered if their analyst, Reese, had bigger and better tools at her disposal. Kate needed to remember to ask that of someone later.

Right now she started searching for more history on these bullying kids and then brought up anything that looked like UBC complaints in the local media. She was still trying to sort through the last cyclist-related accidents that had happened in the previous ten years in that same area, then widened the search to include a ten-block radius.

She wasn’t even sure what she was looking for, just a connection. The fact that she had a second ice-bullet victim now at the same intersection within four days—not one year later—meant something different was going on. That it was connected to these students was something else again. She just didn’t know quite what it was. Her computer hummed along steadily, as she wrote down notes.

When Rodney walked in, he stopped and looked at her. “Stop being so damn early all the time.”

“I woke up with my mind buzzing. I need to get some of this down on paper and rule out some of these scenarios.”

“Run them past me because I’m feeling like my brain is dead.

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