Brass in Pocket (30 page)

So how could Catherine not be there when he needed her?

She was only pleased that he had given her the chance.

“One more thing,” she said. The raceway was dropping away behind them. The sun was high in the sky, throwing shadows that were compact and dark. “Wolfson and Tuva, those two cops from Select Stop Mart? They should be the first ones you interrogate when you try to build a case against Blago.”

“Who says I'm building a case against Blago?”

“I'm just saying… I have a feeling they'll be easier to roll over than Vic Whendt. They're not so tough, and Whendt knows he'll go down for murder one, but they're only accessories. By now they
know they're going to do time, so they'll probably beg to tell what they know.”

“Well, if he's got people inside the department, we have to root them out,” Brass said. “Stands to reason.”

“Stands to reason, Jim.”

“Wolfson and Tuva, you say?”

“Lee Wolfson and Garland Tuva. That's right.”

Brass showed his shark's smile one more time. “I'm already looking forward to my first conversation with them. Hey, you want to be in on it?”

“Jim,” Catherine said, “I thought you'd never ask.”

J
EFF
M
ARIOTTE
is the award-winning author of more than thirty novels, including
Missing White Girl, River Runs Red
, and
Cold Black Hearts
(all as Jeffrey J. Mariotte); horror epic
The Slab
; teen horror quartet
Witch Season; CSI: Miami—Right to Die;
and more, as well as dozens of comic books. He's a co-owner of specialty bookstore Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego, and lives in southeastern Arizona on the Flying M Ranch.

For more information, please visit
www.jeffmariotte.com
.