The Water's Edge by Daniel Judson

Author:Daniel Judson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312352547
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

He’d been there only fifteen minutes when his cell phone rang. The number on the caller ID was one he recognized, one of the pay phones in town. He answered quickly, knew who it had to be.

“Where’d you go?” he said.

“I was getting the information you wanted,” Barton said. The sound of her voice was no small relief to Miller.

“Where’s the DVR?”

“I have it with me,” she said. “I didn’t want to let it out of my sight. I swung by my place to get my VCR so we could make copies. And a change of clothes and things. I found something on the surveillance you’ll want to see, Tommy.”

Miller already knew what it was. He could tell by the sound of her voice. “Hang up and I’ll call you right back from a landline.”

“Okay.”

They hung up. From the phone behind the bar he called Barton back. She answered on the first ring.

“I watched everything there was in the memory,” she said. “Abby installed the camera herself about two weeks ago. You can see her doing it. The only people who came and went during that time were Abby and Michaels—with one exception.”

“Roffman,” Miller said.

“Exactly. But I’m not sure what to make of it.”

“What do you mean?”

“He showed up two nights ago, came to the door, knocked, glanced up at the photos, then left. Hardly definitive evidence.”

“Was anybody home at the time?”

“Michaels had been there but left about ten minutes before Roffman showed up.”

“What the fuck?” Miller said quietly.

“I know. Roffman is up to something, Tommy. There’s no doubting it now.”

Miller nodded, took a breath, then said, “Did you get hold of Spadaro?”

“Yeah. He got your friend’s home number and I called it.”

“What did you find out?”

“The good news is he sold a device with that serial number. The bad news is, it was over four years ago.”

“Who to?”

“A guy named Bechet. Jonah Bechet.”

Miller said nothing.

“Tommy?”

“I’m here.”

“I take it your hunch was right.”

“Yeah.”

“Who is he?”

“He’s a guy we need to find as soon as possible. Did you get an address?”

“Yeah. It’s just a few blocks from you, actually, on Hampton Road. But the address is four years old, so he might not be there anymore. You know how people move around a lot out here. I can see what Spadaro can find out through the DMV.”

“Do that. And find out, too, if you can, why the cops showed up at the cottage minutes after I got there.”

“You’re kidding me.”

“No.”

“You obviously got out okay.”

“Barely. But there’s something else.”

“What?”

“Romano’s girlfriend was in the tub. Dead.”

“Jesus.”

“Yeah.”

“How?”

“Her wrists were slit.”

“That doesn’t quite add up, does it?”

“No. Someone put her there and then called the cops when they saw me go inside.”

“Where are you now?”

“I’m in the restaurant.”

“Downstairs?”

“Yeah.”

“What are you doing down there?”

“It’s a long story.”

“Are you okay?”

“I’m a little shaken. She didn’t have any clothes on.” He hesitated, then said, “For a second there I didn’t know if it was Abby or not. Of the four of them, she’s the only one who’s left.”

“We’ll find her, Bobby.

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