Tommy St James Mysteries Boxed Set by Kristi Belcamino

Author:Kristi Belcamino [Belcamino, Kristi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-20T22:00:00+00:00

Ten

It had been three weeks since Jackie Chandler’s murder.

As the days went on without any information, the number of protesters in front of the police station dwindled. Soon, there was only a small regular group of between three and five people standing out front during business hours.

The press conferences stopped. Statements released by the police contained nothing new. What little information the department revealed was routine: Investigators had combed the nearby residential neighborhoods, going door-to-door looking for witnesses or suspects. Investigators questioned employees and managers at all the businesses within a two-mile radius. Investigators interviewed nearby office workers who either took a walk during that stormy day or else took a lunch break away from the office.

Tommy kept in close touch with Daniels. She checked in with him once a day, but he had nothing new to report: All the investigators were coming up empty-handed.

Even the mayor of Minneapolis held a press conference reassuring citizens that the crime was so unusual that nobody need live in fear, saying, “Our finest detectives are assigned to this case and we expect to have some leads and an arrest.”

Tommy thought he was lying, but early the next morning when she had just come back from a long run and taken her first sip of coffee, her cell phone rang.

It was Daniels.

“I think we got something,” he said.

Tommy was all ears. She grabbed a paper and pen off her counter and held her breath, waiting.

“You didn’t get this from me …”

“Of course not!” she said.

“We pulled a search warrant for a house in that neighborhood. Just behind the cemetery.”

“What?” Tommy sat up. “How can I get it?”

“Here’s the details.” He quickly spouted a street address. “Name is Timothy Bender. Go check at the courthouse. You’ll see what they found.”

Scrambling, Tommy rushed to shower so she could be at the courthouse when it opened.

At the clerk’s office, she requested the search warrant for Timothy Bender’s house. Her hair was still wet and her knee-length white skirt was wrinkled, but no other journalists were around. Good. She needed a scoop. If she could prove to the higher ups that she was more valuable than young Suzie, she might have a chance of surviving. Maybe a huge scoop would do it.

For some reason the publisher, probably because he lived near the walking path, was all over this story. He had given it huge play, top of the fold, across the spread, each time there had been a new development. He also wrote an editorial slamming the police department for not being more proactive in solving the case. Tommy thought the editorial was a bit unfair. From what little she heard from Kelly, who was always closed mouth about everything to do with the department, the detective bureau had been working nonstop. No time off. Fourteen-hour days. She didn’t really think it was their fault that the case had them stumped. The killer must have been good. Or, if it was just some random guy driving by, they might never solve it.

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