The Bayou Graves by Georgia Wagner EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Georgia Wagner
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“Expectation is the enemy of observation.” Sophie Quinn muttered the
phrase like a mantra, rubbing her fingers through the close crop of her
auburn hair against her temples. Her eyes were closed as she cleared her
mind, the thin fabric of her tank top nightshirt rising and falling with each
steadying breath from her athletic frame. The heat of her laptop against her
thighs compounded the uncomfortable mugginess of the early morning
humidity, last night’s dew rising with the sun like sweat all across
Louisiana’s Gulf Coast.
Without looking, she could imagine the crime scene pictures, witness
statements, and forensic reports fed in from the USB stick jutting out from
the machine’s side like a hangnail. She’d paid a private investigator, Fabian
St. Claire, quite the bounty for the information: supposedly, RK’s first
killings. The infant steps of the River Killer, the man who had murdered her
sister and nearly killed Sophie too.
A lump of money and three days of study later, and Sophie could feel
her impatience mounting. She rolled her neck, slowly easing out the kinks.
Her breakfast of black coffee and a microwaved cup of ramen was going
cold on the sticky, plastic table beside her. Three days ago, she’d moved
from the FBI provided suite to a motel outside of New Orleans. Maxwell
Meyers, Sophie’s boss in the Detroit field office, had called to ask when
she’d be back, and Sophie had told him she had reconnected with her
parents and needed some time.
The best lies had a nugget of truth. She had reconnected with her parents
during her last investigation, by stumbling into them while pursuing a
suspect and then berating them like an ill-tempered child for being happy to
see her. Sophie’s stomach twisted at the memory, and she took another
drink of the stale coffee to give it something more tangible to gripe about.
Her parents hadn’t tried to call after her sudden departure. Apart from
the pain in Sophie’s heart, it was as if their six years of silence hadn’t been
broken at all. Sophie had been tempted once or twice to call them, to be the
one to break the silence . . . to maybe even apologize. But each time, she
only had to glance at her open laptop and the urge would quiet.
She opened her eyes.
The pixelated grain of the laptop images stared back at her. Many of
them were copies of copies, uploaded from scans of physical prints. The
originals were no doubt stored in some police server or an FBI database
somewhere. An unfortunate side effect of using PIs, they often couldn’t cite
their sources, pilfered, anonymous, and ill-gotten as they could be.
It would have to be enough.
Sophie looked again, closer, mouthing her mantra once more.
“Expectation is the enemy of observation.”
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