Winter's Reckoning: (A Witch Detective Urban Fantasy Novel) (Seasons of Magic Book 4) by Sarah Biglow

Author:Sarah Biglow [Biglow, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-18T05:00:00+00:00

Twelve

I didn’t stop to figure out if she’d called Jacquie, too. I just got in the car and drove. The Medical Examiner’s office was slow, not surprising for the early morning hour, as I pulled into the parking lot and jogged inside. I found Tricia pacing back and forth in front of the equipment in the lab.

“What did you find?” I blurted before the door could close behind me.

She looked up at my entry and shook her head. “I don’t know why you get all the cases with the unexplainable evidence, but … just look.”

She pointed to the screen of the computer behind her. I studied the swirl of a partial fingerprint. “It’s a partial print.”

“On the bullet they took from Desmond,” she said. “I don’t know how I missed it before. I swear I examined it thoroughly and didn’t see it before. But then I just got this feeling that I should look again and there it was.”

“You haven’t by chance run into a hipster chick with blonde hair, glasses and perpetually wearing headphones, have you? Or noted the smell of cinnamon somewhere it didn’t make sense?” I told Avery not to do anything illegal, but nudging the ME along sounded right up her alley.

She wrinkled her nose. “What? No.” After a beat, she continued. “I found the print and ran it through the database, not expecting a hit honestly. I mean, it would mean whoever shot Desmond wasn’t wearing gloves when they loaded the gun. But then it found something.”

I tried to temper my excitement. “Was you realizing you missed the partial print the weird thing, because I agree, you are usually way more thorough than that.”

“I’m going to ignore that dig, because I kind of deserve it. No, the weird thing is it came up with a possible match. Except the match doesn’t make sense, because it belongs to a deceased victim from a past case of yours.”

“What case?”

She tapped a few keys and a photo of Adrian came up on the screen. “You’re right that doesn’t make sense, because he was very much dead … way before Desmond was shot.”

“We confirmed it with dental records, because of the fire damage.”

An uneasy thought occurred to me. “Are you sure it’s him and not a relative? I mean, both of his parents are still alive.” Could Belladonna have acted out from her own grief?

“It is only a partial print so it’s possible the system got it wrong and it’s actually a familial match. That would be more plausible.”

More plausible, yes, but it doesn’t explain why one of Adrian’s relatives would take out Desmond. Unless reason wasn’t driving them. “Thanks for this. I need to follow up on it.”

“I hope you catch whoever did this. I hate not being able to really close out the case, you know?”

More than you know.

“I do. Thank you for this, Tricia. I really appreciate it.”

I had one foot out the door when she spoke again. “Spearmint.”

“What?” I turned back to look at her.

“I

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