Toronto Series Bundle, livre ebook

For Laurie, Always CHAPTER ONE “THE CARS WERE STOPPED on King, right there, waiting for the light to change.” Roxanne Keyes lit another cigarette and told the detectives exactly what she saw happen then. “A guy got out of the Volvo, the passenger side, walked back to this one, and shot that guy in the head. Then he walked back to the car, got in, and it drove away.” She didn’t tell them she was pretty sure she knew the driver of the Volvo. “He just walked?” She was about to say, no, he swaggered like you guys, but she said, “Yeah, he just walked.” That was half an hour ago. Since then, the uniformed cops had closed off the street, the crime scene guys had taken thousands of pictures and thrown a tarp over the corpse in the SUV. The crowd that had gathered on the sidewalk was already starting to drift away. People on the Starbucks patio, the witnesses who’d given their driver’s license information to the uniformed cops, were restless waiting for the detectives. Half an hour, and the feeling of being part of a special event, a big deal in Toronto, was gone. They were complaining about places they had to be, even though they hadn’t been there much longer than it would have taken them to drink their coffees. Roxanne had made one more phone call to Maurice Abernathy, lowering the price again, Jesus, to seventeen-fifty a square foot for a lousy 20,500 square feet in the only listing she had, a half-empty reno they called the Toy Works.