The Death Code (A Remi Laurent FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 1) by Ava Strong

The Death Code (A Remi Laurent FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 1) by Ava Strong

Author:Ava Strong [Strong, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2021-10-14T22:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Daniel felt the case slipping through his fingers.

After their fumble with the last museum, they needed to get on track, trace the connections between the crime and figure out what the hell was going on.

The problem was that Daniel didn’t see any connections.

He sat in his hotel room, staring at his note and the reports that had come in. Daniel and Remi had gotten adjoining motel rooms in Richmond since there was no point in returning to D.C. It would only waste time, and they didn’t have much time.

The killer was in a hurry for some reason. Why else would he hit three museums in less than a week? That had started to draw nationwide attention. The ABC affiliate that had shown up at the museum had sent the story through the network. While CNN and Fox hadn’t yet posted on it, several less popular websites had. It was on the verge of going viral.

That wouldn’t have happened if the killer had bided his time, hit a museum once a year or so.

And with the clues hidden for a century in artifacts that never left their museums, why the rush?

So while the killer went on a whirlwind tour of medieval art collections, Daniel was stuck in a Motel 6 going through all the information the local police had gathered about the victims, their bosses, and coworkers. He was looking for connections and finding none.

He saw no evidence that the victims knew one another, knew Remi, or knew of the cryptex. Only one of the security guards, Ted Peterson, had any interest in medieval history, and even he didn’t show any interest in or knowledge of the cryptex or anything related to it.

Same with the three museums. None had ever invited Remi to give a guest lecture, and none had ever hosted a talk or exhibition on the cryptex, cryptography, the occult, or anything remotely associated with this damn mythical artifact.

Mythical? God, he hoped not. That would mean all these people got sliced up for a shadow. At least let it be real, something actually worth trying to find.

Because if it wasn’t, Remi would have wasted her entire career.

Even worse, her research into a myth would have kickstarted this whole killing spree.

The investigations from the local police departments investigating the various killings only added to the confusion—an avalanche of details of the crime scene and low-quality eyewitness reports from well-intentioned citizens who probably hadn’t seen anything. He still had to trawl through it all, though.

Detective Fish’s report from the Glencairn crime scene was the most useful. The CSI team had studied the boot print and came back with the results that it was a size 11 Timberland worn by a man who was about 210 lbs. Daniel dismissed this with a shrug. He had figured all that out from the first ten seconds of security camera footage.

Another item was far more interesting. In the clay that had flaked off the suspect’s boot was a small fleck of gold paint. Chemical analysis showed it to be modern.



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