Page 26 of So Sinister
He placed a slight emphasis on that last word, as though to insinuate that Faith and Jessica weren’t working.Class outrage could be another motive for murder.Jackson Entwhistle and Raelynn Hayes weren’t wealthy, but they were better off than Craig, and Entwhistle had fired him and presumably contributed to his current state.
Turk growled at Craig when he approached Faith.Craig stopped and regarded him.“He gonna be trouble?”
Faith tensed, not at the question but at the lack of fear Craig showed.Most people were intimidated, and rightly so, by the big German shepherd.Craig didn’t show any emotion, just cold calculation.
“Are you going to be trouble?”she asked.
Craig lifted his eyes to Faith’s.“I don’t plan to be.”
Once more, he showed little emotion aside from the vague annoyance with which he’d walked out.
And the anger.Always the anger.
Faith backed off.She didn’t want a confrontation with him yet.Not until she confirmed he was their killer.“Let’s talk.”
The four of them headed a comfortable distance from the dock.They stopped around the corner of the building.Craig folded powerful arms across his chest and said, “Okay.What’s this about?”
Jessica took her typical blunt approach.“The murders of Jackson Entwhistle and Raelynn Hayes.”
Craig blinked.Then he scoffed.“Seriously?”
“We’re always serious.”
Craig scoffed again and looked past Jessica at the ocean just visible through the warehouses, office buildings, and manufacturing plants, all on the smaller side and most vacant.
“So you think I built fake bombs and put them in the hands of the dead bodies of my enemies.”
Faith raised an eyebrow.“We didn’t say anything about fake bombs.”
“It’s all over the news.That reporter from Washington, the hot redhead.”
Faith sighed.Damn it, Bridgette.“When was this aired?”
“Like an hour after the first bomb was defused.I was watching it on the news when it happened.Then the same redhead mentioned the parallel from the second case.”
Jessica rolled her eyes.Faith sighed and made a mental note to give Sergeant Givens a stern talking-to about revealing details of an active investigation.She’d talk to Bridgette too, but it was clear the opportunistic newswoman wouldn’t heed their requests.
“So theywereyour enemies?”Jessica asked.
“They were assholes.Does that count?”
“Actually,” Faith interjected, “I’m very curious about the bombs.Why fake ones?”
“I don’t know.I didn’t make them.”
“Of course not,” Faith demurred, “but I still find them fascinating.Do you have any idea why the killer might have made dud bombs?”
“Because he was an idiot?”
“Being an idiot withuswon’t help you,” Jessica warned.“We know that you and Entwhistle had a conflict when you were let go, and we have you on record saying that Entwhistle and Hayes were your enemies and that they were assholes.”
“Let’s get back to the bombs,” she said.“Why fake ones?Why murder them, plant dud bombs and call in fake bomb threats?”
“I told you already.”
Turk growled low in his throat.Craig looked at him.“Sure you’re not gonna be a problem, buddy?”
“You’renot going to be a problem,” Jessica fired back.
