Octopus Alibi (Alex Rutledge, Book 4) by Tom Corcoran

By Tom Corcoran

The suspected homicide of a long-missing girl, the dying of an aged mentor, and the suicide of Key West's well known mayor are published in one April day. Alex Rutledge, a contract photographer with part-time forensic ties to the Monroe County Sheriff's division and the most important West Police division, needs to accompany fishing consultant and good friend Sam Wheeler to spot a physique in Broward County. Hours later, after Alex is again at the island, a Key West detective coerces him into documenting Mayor Gomez's death. Alex additionally learns he needs to administrate the property of Naomi Douglas, the girl who inspired his inventive photography.

Alex quickly suspects that not anything is because it appears to be like. The police decide upon to not see crimes. purely Rutledge senses foul play at the island, a hyperlink among the deaths, and the specter of extra peril.

Home-front problems compound the quandary. Teresa Barga, Alex's new housemate, is absorbed through the arriving on the town of Whitney Randolph, a school good friend with funds, wild tales, bent morals, and extra alibis than an octopus has suckers. Randolph, it apears, has already slithered into the unfolding suspense, linking himself to rip-off sufferers and homicide victims.

Alex needs to forget about a dating long past bitter, then specialise in wisps of clues to attach the prior and current. pals act out of personality, officers develop into duplicitous, and threats of violence take Alex to the main harmful disagreement of his existence.

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If you leave me to get on with my work, some time later today, Inspector Horton,’ she answered brightly. ’ He heard her call as he left. ‘ We can start now. ’ Cantelli shrugged. pmd 46 14/11/2005, 18:15 T IDE OF D EATH 47 Cantelli laughed. ‘She knows her stuff and she can hold her own. I’ve seen Uckfield try to brow beat her without the slightest effect and you know what he can be like when he gets into his stride. ’ The corridor back into the main part of the hospital smelt of cabbage and disinfectant but even that was better than the formaldehyde of the mortuary.

She held his eyes. If she read his thoughts and was embarrassed by them she didn’t show it. She lifted the coffee cup in front of her and took a sip, then pulled a face. Horton guessed it had grown cold. ’ he asked, lightly. She answered as if he’d personally insulted her. ’ He wondered if her terseness was a cover for shyness, or guilt perhaps? He got the impression she didn’t really care that much for her husband but that didn’t mean she had killed him. Their body might not be Thurlow at all, although in a way he hoped it was.

And his future was too irretrievably linked to his past to forget the man. ‘Drop me at the marina, will you, Barney. I want to collect my bike. You return to the station; get those fingerprints over to the Scientific Services for checking. ’ Uckfield roared. I wasn’t playing, thought Horton, standing ramrod stiff the other side of the DCI’s desk. Who had told Uckfield about his encounter with Jarrett? Not Cantelli, surely? ‘Jarrett’s complained to the Super. Says you’ve been harassing him. ’ He might have guessed that Jarrett would go bellyaching right to the top.

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