String of Murder by Brett Hicks

Author:Brett Hicks [Hicks, Brett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-04T05:00:00+00:00

Seventeen:

Avery was laying down, she had lost a lot of steam after being questioned about the murder, and her own attempted murder. Nothing about this case was what it seemed now. This killer appeared to have a fixation with a single target in each case, but that wasn’t true. He had been as determined to kill Avery as he had her mother.

More questions began to cloud my already full mind. Bobby had been relatively quiet, besides his phone call to the station to report our findings. The Captain had been breathing down his neck for updates, so giving a suspect description would hopefully smooth the waters between our boss and ourselves.

Grace was cooking something in the kitchen, it smelled like pasta of some kind and leftover beef cuts. She was a southern girl, so she had some interesting concoctions up her sleeves. Maria was watching Avery’s door like a matron hawk ready to swoop in at any moment.

I felt my face, as I rubbed my hand over my cheeks, and I noticed that the tears had begun to wash away the thick clay-like make-up covering my scars. I swore to myself, and I rushed off to my bathroom. The top two forks of the scar marring my right cheek were visible now. I fumbled through my cabinets and fished out my thick clay-like skin-colored cream. I rubbed a little in and I smoothed the surface area until my scars were nearly invisible again. I would live like this forever, hiding my most clearly identifiable marks, hiding who I really am. I sighed, and I just stared at the Nordic beauty in the mirror. My short hair was a few inches longer than the last time I checked, I would want to get it trimmed again soon. My blue eyes were red-rimmed, and my lips were dry. I had purple bags forming under my eyes from lack of sleep today.

Further self-reflection was cut short with the loud ringing the telephone. I stepped out and Bobby handed me the large black receiver.

“Hello, Detective Julia Mullers.”

“Julia, it’s me, Jasmine, I have finished my inspection of the body, and I would like you and your partner to come down. I have also rushed and examined the first victim as well.”

I sagged at the sound of Jasmine’s native Nexus City accent, slightly Irish, but slightly southern as well. Though, Nexus was far enough north to have only traces of the deeply slurred accent further down the colonies.

“ Okay, thank you, Doctor, we’ll be right there.”

Bobby arched a brow in question, and I smirked at him.

“Plan for us in about twenty-five minutes, with any luck the traffic will agree with that timetable.”

“Yes, that will be perfectly fine, well, until later then.”

I heard the loud click and I knew the call had ended. I hung up my receiver and I looked at Bobby.

“Jasmine has the results of her autopsy ready. She said she has also rushed and performed an autopsy on Mary.”

“That was fast!”

I nodded in agreement.

“I believe the Captain has something to do with this rush.

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