Thunder by Kirkham
Author:Kirkham [Kirkham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781990746192
Publisher: A.G. Kirkham
Published: 2023-10-24T18:30:00+00:00
THIRTEEN
Face the Day
THUNDER
I drag myself away from Rosie, leaving her curled up in my bed, and head back down the stairs. Orion is in the office weâve set up with every possible gadget a computer guy would want. Orionâs the best there is. The only one comparable is Dante Viale. Heâs Renoâs younger brother, and between the two of them, Iâm hoping weâll find the connection between the dead woman and the bastard terrorizing Rose.
Guard and Ghost are already there, along with Saint and Risk.
âIs Rose all right?â Saint asks as soon as he sees me.
âShaken up, for sure, but sheâs hanging in there.â
âYeah, well, it ainât every day a body goes flying out of a car directly in front of your store,â Risk says. âSheâs tougher than she looks.â I have to agree with him. Anyone else would have crumbled by now.
Orion looks up from his screen. âI did a reconstruction of the womanâs face, and Iâm running it through a recognition program. It may take a while. The morgue has Jane Doe slotted for autopsy tomorrow morning. Iâll be checking periodically for the final report.â
âShe died from a gunshot to the heart. Whatâs curious is that she was beaten first,â Saint says. âIf she was an out-of-line whore, why bother beating her if you were going to kill her anyway? And why kill her at all if she was making you money? A pimpâs goal is to use these women for cash. Why kill your revenue stream?â
âShe could have been causing drama,â Guard adds.
âThen you slap her around and set her straight,â Ghost responds, shaking his head.
Iâm inclined to agree with him on that. âNah, thereâs a connection. A message. They dumped her in front of Roseâs shop. Itâs a message for her.â
Orion says, âThunderâs right. We need to get a handle on whoâs pulling the strings. I get the idea that the pimp, Harvey, was taking orders from someone higher up. Once we know who he is, then weâll have a trail of breadcrumbs to follow.â
Thereâs a dinging sound from the computer, and a face flashes onto the screen. Pretty blonde-haired girl about sixteen or seventeen years old. Looks like she belongs in the cornfields of Iowa, all fresh-faced and smiling.
âCora Davis went missing five years ago. Parents reported her disappearance. Police deemed her a runaway,â Orion says. He types rapidly into the keyboard and pulls up the information from her file. âParents insist she was kidnapped. Theyâre offering their own reward for any information about their daughter and her safe return. They most recently petitioned to have the case reopened with a witness who said they saw their daughter in the city. The request was denied.â
âIt could be the woman from today,â Ghost murmurs. The woman was so badly beaten that the best form of identification would be fingerprints and dental records, and they wonât be available to us until tomorrow. All we have to work with are the photos taken at the time, and Orionâs facial reconstruction software.
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