The Innocent Wife: An addictive crime thriller packed with jaw-dropping twists (Detective Josie Quinn Book 16) by Lisa Regan

Author:Lisa Regan [Regan, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803149578
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2022-12-11T18:30:00+00:00

THIRTY-TWO

Beau Collins was right about the Citizen Review website. After getting the warrant signed, Josie and Noah spent the rest of Sunday night just trying to track down where to send the warrant for information about the site—to no avail. Every email address they tried was defunct. When they finally found a name associated with the site, it was so generic that they had no way of narrowing where to find the owner. By early Monday morning, the entire team sat at their desks, each down their own internet rabbit hole trying to find more information about the site and how they could access personal information about reviewers.

Another dead end.

Josie momentarily gave up on Citizen Review and called the women’s center to verify the anonymous thirty-thousand-dollar donation from October. But they had not received it. Not in October or any other month in the last year. In fact, Josie’s contact at the women’s center laughed so hard and so long at the suggestion that the rest of the team heard her through the phone receiver. Josie hung up and briefed the team. They were discussing what might have happened to the money when the Chief strode out of his office and across the great room. He walked over to the television affixed to the wall, found the remote control, and clicked to power the TV on. Then he turned the channel to WYEP. Beau Collins’s face filled the screen. He was clean-shaven but his face looked sallow and sunken, even with the copious amounts of make-up that had obviously been caked on his skin.

The Chief turned to them. “This bastard is live, on the air, right now.” His acne-scarred face flushed bright red. With each word, his voice grew louder, until he was shouting. “His wife was violently murdered in his home on their wedding anniversary, then her assistant—his damn mistress—was murdered, and this jackass is doing a show about relationships right now. Did any of you know about this?”

They all shook their heads. Josie leaned back in her chair and folded her arms across her chest. “We never discussed whether or not he would move forward with the show.”

Gretchen said, “I just assumed he wouldn’t be stupid enough to do live shows this week.”

The Chief pointed the remote over his shoulder at the screen. “Amber’s been working her ass off to keep the press out of this as long as possible so we could control how and when they found out. She worked so hard I gave her the morning off! This guy is going to blurt it out. Then we could have a nightmare on our hands.”

Gretchen stood and walked over to the Chief. She took the remote from his hand and pointed it at the television. “Or it could bring the kind of attention that makes it much harder for the killer to operate without getting caught.”

“I think this killer wants the attention,” said Noah. “What better way to punish Beau Collins—which seems to be the goal—than

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