The Bones at Point No Point (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 1) by D.D. Black

Author:D.D. Black [Black, D.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Darkness and Light Publishing
Published: 2022-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

Ridley had agreed to let Austin take the lead in the interview, hoping his knowledge of the D’Antonia case would allow him to twist the questions in the right direction. But first he’d forced Austin to take care of his head. There was no way he was going to the hospital and risk missing the interrogation, so after popping a couple aspirin with another cup of lukewarm coffee, he’d used the mirror in the men’s room to clean up and apply pressure to the wound with a neatly folded paper towel.

The interview room was an eight-by-eight box in the back corner of the building. It had been painted a thin white, like nonfat milk, as though someone had thrown on primer then forgotten to finish the job with a coat of interior paint.

Austin sat in a plastic chair across from Trisha. Ridley leaned on the wall.

Trisha sat in a ratty old loveseat in the corner, her chin poking out above a thin blanket she’d pulled up around her neck.

Across the hall, Jimmy and Lucy were in an identical room with Frank Baxter. Though all agreed that he seemed to be a passenger on Trisha’s bus of criminality, she’d probably let details slip in the past. Loose pillow talk, Austin knew, had brought down as many criminals as forensic science.

“Trisha,” Ridley began, “this conversation is being recorded.” He pointed to a small camera pointing down from the corner.

She nodded.

He read her the standard Miranda rights and she nodded along, only acknowledging them verbally when Ridley asked twice. Thankfully, she did not request a lawyer, which would have ended their conversation before it began.

When he’d finished with the preliminaries, Ridley leaned back in his chair and laced his hands behind his head. “Thomas Austin is a consultant on this case. He’s going to ask you a few questions.”

She glanced in Austin’s direction, then continued to stare blankly ahead. “You were at my apartment. My truck.”

“I was.”

She opened her mouth right away, then thought better of whatever she was about to say. Finally, she said, “I’ve never been arrested.” Her voice was weak, kind of raspy. She sounded tired.

Austin handed her a photograph. “Where’s this little boy? Where’s Joshua Green?”

She looked down for only a moment. “No idea. Never heard of him.”

Austin held his head stone still. He’d learned that a total absence of movement was sometimes a better way to get someone’s attention than a gesture, because it was unexpected. When Trisha looked over, Austin said, “I promise you, we can be here for a long, long time. You can go to jail for a long, long time. But everything in your life will end up better if you tell me right now everything you know about this boy.”

She looked at the photo again, her lip quivering slightly. “ I swear I don’t know about that child.”

Austin almost smiled. “Interesting phrasing. So you know about a child?”

“That’s not what I said, not what I meant.”

“Why’d you say that child’?”

“I didn’t.”

Austin made a quick pivot.

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