The Case of the Not-So-Fair Trader (Reluctant Dick, Book 1) by Jim Stevens
By Jim Stevens
A despicable inventory dealer is located buried less than an avalanche of his personal backyard rocks, inflicting fired-from-the strength- Richard Sherlock to be yanked off the bowling alley and whisked to the crime scene through his pampered protégée Tiffany Richmond. He needs to turn out homicide and prevent fee of the twelve-million-dollar Richmond insurance coverage. not anything is smart. Crime scene is a multitude. there's no cash path. There are too many causes from too many suspects who've too many alibis. Worst of all Sherlock's undesirable again is appearing up, his ex-wife wishes more cash and the homicide research is placing a major dent in his parenting time table of his daughters. Richard Sherlock hates his task, and will be a reluctant dick, yet he's higher at discovering the WHO in WHODUNIT than an individual else.
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There were wooden planks laid here and there as walkways. There were haphazard piles of paper cement sacks, some full, some empty. There were more open expansion joints. There were strings of bare light bulbs, turned off. Empty wheelbarrows, crushed soda cans, spools of cable, unexplained lengths of lumber, piles of crushed stone, silent concrete mixers. There was grey cement dust everywhere, as fine as talc, and the smell of damp lime. The man with the rifle walked on in the darkness until he came close to the new northeast corner.
He drove inside and thumbed the button again and the door came down after him. He shut the engine off and sat still for a moment. Then he got out of the van and walked through the mud room and on into the kitchen. He patted the dog and turned on the television. Paramedics in full body armour went in through the back of the library. Two of them stayed inside to check for injuries among the sheltering crowd. Four of them came out the front and ran crouched through the plaza and ducked behind the wall.
The shell case has got fingerprints on it,' he said. 'From when he loaded the magazine. Same thumb and index finger as on the quarter in the parking meter and on the traffic cone. So we can tie the crime to the gun, and the gun to the ammo, and the ammo to the guy who used it. See? It all connects. The guy, the gun, the crime. ' 'I think he was a military shooter,' Emerson said. 'All military personnel are in the databases. ' It was a matter of forty-nine minutes. A desk guy knocked and entered.