The Killer's Daughter: A totally gripping crime thriller with a heart-stopping twist (Detective Margot Phalen Series Book 1) by Kate Wiley

Author:Kate Wiley [Wiley, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Storm Publishing
Published: 2024-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

MAY 16, 1982

Chinatown, San Francisco

Ed chewed on his thumbnail, a bad childhood habit he’d never quite been able to break, and something he loathed seeing others do. His car was parked on Sproule Lane, a little side street not far from Chinatown. The area around him was dark, and in spite of how bustling he knew evening tourist foot traffic would be only a few blocks away, none of it found its way here.

Sproule Lane was practically hidden, the kind of street you only turned on to by accident when you were looking for somewhere else. From where he was parked, he had a perfect view of a row of houses across the street that he knew had been converted into apartments. He’d checked the door a week earlier to confirm numbers, to make sure he was looking at the right one.

Apartment 2A, the one jotted down on the paper in his pocket, had the name Amaro on the buzzer box, which meant it was the place he was looking for. Right now, in the settling dusk, the apartment curtains were open, and one window was cracked to let in the fresh spring air.

Cece, SWF, 26. Energetic young paralegal seeks single, never married partner for adventure and excitement. No kids.

Ed had the paper memorized, both Cece’s personal information—Cecilia for her credit card company’s purposes—and the greeting she was hoping to use to lure in a man. Never married. No kids. Those words had ruffled Ed’s feathers quite a lot. Who did these girls think they were these days? Twenty-six wasn’t exactly young and fresh, and Ed himself was only thirty, yet he wouldn’t have made the cut for Cece’s potential suitors.

Like it was his fault he’d married Kim. If he’d realized what a fucking disaster that would turn into, he wouldn’t have bothered, but a woman like Cece wouldn’t look at it like that. Married meant used up, meant damaged goods. He was really bothered by her hubris, that she thought she was so damned special she would be too good for him.

What did she know about life anyway?

He drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, watching her window. From where he was, he couldn’t tell if it was a living room or a bedroom, but whatever room it was it had gauzy white curtains, barely enough to keep prying eyes away if they were closed, but right now they were pulled wide open.

He froze when she came to the window. He’d been watching the apartment for a day or two, wanting to make sure she was the right one, the best fit for him. Cece was pretty and wore her age well. She didn’t have a baby face, but she kept her makeup minimal, which meant she didn’t look too old. Where other women, Kim included, were favoring shorter hairstyles with tight perms, Cece was still displaying the more popular seventies trend, her dark hair worn long and straight.

Sitting on the inside ledge of the window, she opened it slightly wider, then lit a cigarette.

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