Xo
“Her thoughts, though, were on how to handle the explosion when Charles Overby or, more likely, the CBI director in Sacramento told Sheriff Anita Gonzalez that Dance was going to be running the Bobby Prescott homicide.
She actually jumped when her phone buzzed.
Ah, Charles, hope I didn’t disrupt one of your leisurely lunches….
But the number on caller ID was a local one.
“Hello?”
“Kathryn?”
“Yes.”
“It’s Pike Madigan.”
She said nothing.
“Talk for a minute?”
She thought she heard scraping of a spo...on. A smack of lips. Was he eating lunch, the phone tucked between shoulder and ear? More ice cream? “Go ahead.”
“What’re you up to?”
She said, “Going for chicken mole at Julio’s.”
“Good choice. Only don’t do the tamales. Lard city.”
A pause on his part now. “I got a call from the head of our Crime Scene Unit, Charlie Shean. Spelled S-H-E-A-N. Not like the actor. Takes some grief for that. Good man.”
She recalled the efficient team at the convention center and at the trailer, on a par with a big-city CSU.MoreLess
She actually jumped when her phone buzzed.
Ah, Charles, hope I didn’t disrupt one of your leisurely lunches….
But the number on caller ID was a local one.
“Hello?”
“Kathryn?”
“Yes.”
“It’s Pike Madigan.”
She said nothing.
“Talk for a minute?”
She thought she heard scraping of a spo...on. A smack of lips. Was he eating lunch, the phone tucked between shoulder and ear? More ice cream? “Go ahead.”
“What’re you up to?”
She said, “Going for chicken mole at Julio’s.”
“Good choice. Only don’t do the tamales. Lard city.”
A pause on his part now. “I got a call from the head of our Crime Scene Unit, Charlie Shean. Spelled S-H-E-A-N. Not like the actor. Takes some grief for that. Good man.”
She recalled the efficient team at the convention center and at the trailer, on a par with a big-city CSU.MoreLess
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