The Murder Code by Ava Strong

Author:Ava Strong [Strong, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ava Strong
Published: 2021-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

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In the hall outside the interrogation room, Daniel paced back and forth. They had decided to take a break. Gagneux was still in the interrogation room. They’d question him a bit more later, although there didn’t seem much point. He looked like he was an innocent man.

Well, innocent of the murders, anyway.

And now they were stuck at a dead end, and he had just received an email from Assistant Director Ochiai asking for a progress report. Maybe he wouldn’t send a report since there was no progress.

Damn it! He’d never get back to the Behavioral Affairs Unit at this rate.

Although it looked like the Behavioral Affairs Unit had followed him. This had all the makings of a serial murder. The guy had killed twice in two creative ways and would probably do so again. Remi was right, he was collecting the paintings. The question was—how many more did he need? There was no record of one of the previous owners being killed for it. They’d have found out about that already. So did the killer need to kill for two more paintings, or did he already obtain one or two by more honest means?

If he already had the complete set, he might go to ground, and they’d never find him.

Daniel couldn’t let someone like that get off the hook. He prided himself on always getting his man.

And if he didn’t get this man, not only would a killer go free, but Daniel’s career would be on the ropes. He had already been demoted to this Podunk division as punishment for being a bit too “assertive” in his handling of suspects, and for talking back to his superiors. If he couldn’t produce results, consistently and quickly, he’d end up as a filing clerk at Quantico.

And then there was this place …

The cafés, the architecture, the sound of the language, it all reminded him of when he was a kid.

Ever since his trips with his mother and “Uncle” Ray, he’d avoided going to Europe. His ex-wife had nagged him about coming here. “You know so much; why don’t you want to go back?” He kept his silence and insisted on going to Mexico instead.

Uncle Ray had never taken him to Mexico. He hadn’t been interested in Latin America.

He sure had been interested in young Daniel, though.

Mom had been an academic, spending more time in museums and archives than with her son. She always had an excuse for disappearing into some dusty old place for a whole afternoon.

“Not a problem,” Uncle Ray would tell her, putting an arm around Daniel, who would plaster on a smile and try not to squirm. “We’ll keep ourselves entertained with guy stuff.”

Daniel shuddered. All over Europe—France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries—it had been the same. Mom ditching him and Uncle Ray wanting to do “guy stuff.”

The sound of Torsson running up to him snapped him out of his reverie. The Swede was waving his phone, his eyes lit up. “I’ve got it! I know where Pestilence is.

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