Women on the Case by Sara Paretsky

Author:Sara Paretsky [Paretsky, Sara]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: mystery, women, detectives, V.I. Warshawksi, short stories
ISBN: 9780440223252
Publisher: New York : Dell Book, 1997,c1996.

Margo instigated her own investigation into the handling of the Dolphin Bay development application, and turned her findings over to the anticorruption commission. In the meantime, I went to the police with my suspicions.

When the heat was applied, Ross Harvey caved in and confessed, but said he’d simply acted as a go-between for Rowan Sherwood and Lindsay Groenewegen, who’d organized the bogus environmental assessments through George McCluskey. Harvey insisted he’d done it for his disabled son. The mayor of Dolphin Bay and Rowan Sherwood hung tough, but a disgruntled employee of McCluskey and Farrell defected and gave up his boss, who implicated Lindsay Groenewegen.

Forensic tests on fibers found on David Valentine’s body matched those from the carpet in the trunk of Rowan Sherwood’s BMW. Confronted with the evidence, he admitted knocking down David Valentine in a rage, after David told him he had enough evidence to sink the conspiracy. Sherwood was a gambler, it seemed, and had been under pressure from the loansharks to pay debts of close to a quarter of a million dollars. Groenewegen was just plain greedy.

I didn’t stick around long after my heart-to-heart with Margo: there was too much suspicion in the air. As I was cleaning up my desk, Maureen Noonan dropped in.

“Well miss you,” she said. “You know what you’re doing.”

“Maureen, you make me look like an amateur,” I said, shoving the last of my junk into my bag and rising to leave.

We both knew Maureen had masterminded the entire investigation. All she’d had to do was wind me up and point me in the right direction. She’d avenged David Valentine’s death, saved Dolphin Bay—for the time being, anyway—punished Margo Daniels for her hypocrisy, and got clean away with the lot of it.

It doesn’t look now as if Margo Daniels will be the first female prime minister of Australia, but if Maureen Noonan ever decides to run, I know where I’ll put my money.

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