The Perfect Witness by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2023-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Jessie could barely keep her eyes open.

By the time she and Nettles returned to Central Station just after 2 p.m., she could feel a dull thickness developing in her head, making it hard to think straight.

It didn’t help that Skyler Barrow seemed to be a dead end. They were still waiting for Jamil to get them the GPS info on her phone from the times when Mia and Jodi were killed. But even if they showed that her phone hadn’t moved from the house, that didn’t prove that she hadn’t gone somewhere without it.

Jessie’s gut told her that in the end, they would have to look elsewhere to find their killer, but that didn’t stop her requesting that a squad car pass by Skyler’s place every hour to see if she’d suddenly decided to make a run for the Mexican border.

In the meantime, she and Nettles had no choice but to give Ryan the bad news that their entire day had turned up no suspects credible enough to arrest and no leads that had them any closer to catching this murderer. They arrived at his office and Nettles knocked on the door, which was slightly ajar.

“Come on in,” he called out.

They opened the door and stepped inside. Ryan was staring at his computer screen with a frustrated expression.

“You have any updates for me?” he asked without looking up from the screen.

She was about to answer when his phone rang.

“Hold on one second,” he said. “I’ve been waiting for this call.”

He answered it and listened quietly for about twenty seconds. The look on his face suggested he didn’t like what he was being told.

“Try anyway,” he finally said. “It may not amount to anything, but we still have to dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t.’ Let me know what you find.”

After he hung up, he looked up at them for the first time. His frustration level appeared to have risen tenfold as a result of the call.

“What’s that all about?” Jessie asked him.

He opened his mouth and looked like he was about to vent, but then seemed to think better of it.

“Nothing worth wasting your time with right now,” he told her. “I’m more interested in hearing how things are going for you two.”

“No new news on the Clone Killer?” she couldn’t help but ask despite her exhaustion.

He shook his head.

“Nothing worth sharing,” he replied. “I promise that if there’s something worthwhile to tell you, I will.”

Jessie could tell he was holding back. Normally she would have pushed to get more information, but she was just too tired right now to try.

“I wish we had better news for you,” Nettles said as they both sat down in the uncomfortable chairs across from Ryan. “But so far, none of the friends from the list Jamil generated for us have amounted to much. We have one suspect, Skyler Barrow, that we can’t eliminate. But I wouldn’t hold my breath on her. She’s too toasted to wash her dishes most of the time.

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