Bloody Search: a female detective mystery thriller Novella (Shelby Griffin Series - Season 3) by Audrey Walker

from her. From what little we could find out, she said there were two of them, and one of them was the boss. He told her that as long as she stayed quiet, nothing bad would happen to her. She apparently overheard them talking once—something about how ‘Shelby will pay for what she did.’” “So, it’s confirmed then,” I verify, “They are definitely coming after me. They went after my former captain because he was involved in the arrest of Collins and they finished him off. The second murder that happened resembled the same MO that the killer used for Captain Ramirez, but it lacked the passion and the anger that was there in the captain’s murder. So either we have two perps, or the same perp killed them both. Only, when he killed the captain, it was personal. The second murder was committed to keep us from finding more information—which explains why it was so neatly done. He wasn’t angry or emotional. No, he was replicating the same crime scene, making sure I never got the information I needed. He was sending me a message.” “Detective?” the lieutenant interjects, but I am already on the path to working it out, and my mind is focused. “Then he went after Seth, who was also involved in Collins’s arrest,” I continue, “But whoever it is, didn’t just want to kill him, he wanted to torture him—which is why he was going after Helen. Once again, it was personal to him. He contacts me, blackmailing me into killing Seth. Which shows that he’s trying to toy with me. Make me dance on his finge