Chapter 20

Either you have got the sharpest nose for a story I have ever seen,” I said to Alice Barry angrily,” or I may start to think of you as a murder suspect.”

This was the second time she intruded in the middle of a possible crime scene.

“Don’t tell me I’m stepping on some inter office romance?” She quipped.

That made me steaming mad. We have a developing situation here. If it got into the news prematurely, it would hurt any chance the department had to control this case. I could just imagine the nightmare headline: BRIDE AND GROOM KILLER STRIKES AGAIN. And Kalistus would be livid. This would be a second time I called to control the crime scene with the same reporter.

“Who’s you friend?” Gabriel asked.

“Alice Barry,” she announced, extending her hand. And you?”

“Alice’s with the chronicle,” I alerted him.

Gebriel did a startled double take, left in the mid shake like a fired worker holding the hand of a replacement.