Page 107 of Icy Cold Death

“I. SOMETIMES. ANSWER. THEIR. EMAILS. TO. BE. FUNNY. TRY. ME. I. AM. THE. WELCOME. WAGON.”

Tori warned him.

“Julian will kill you after the last time someone emailed us, and you did that.”

“NEWSFLASH. I. AM. ALREADY. DEAD. SPROUT. AND. HAVE. TO. WATCH. HIM. HAVE. SEX. WITH. MY. SISTER. THIS. IS. MY. PURGATORY.”

“He will kill you again.”

There was chuckling through the phone, and the rest of them laughed too. Well, not the detective. She was straight-faced as she clearly tried to take it all in.

And no one blamed her.

Their menagerie was a handful at times. All things considered, she was absorbing it well. She wasn’t freaking out.

“Anyway,” Genesis said, “after she went missing, the next missing person report came in days later.”

“Who?” Tori asked. “I mean, I plan on going to the crime scene tonight and talking to the dead women if they’re there, but I like to be prepared,” she admitted, not telling the woman they already had a list from an FBI source.

The FBI tablet.

Genesis was so damn curious about all of this. She had to go there.

“Uh, is that part of your process?” she asked. “You know, the psychic thing?”

Tori nodded.

“Yep.”

To each their own.

Genesis was on borrowed cop time anyway. She was done there in two weeks. Somehow, she didn’t think it would take this woman two weeks to solve this if she had access to the dead women.

“Well, I guess I’ll caffeinate today. It’s going to be a long one,” she admitted.

Yeah, it was.

Only, solving it to see the captain’s face, and to show Jon Wilkes what he was dealing with?

An all-female sleuthing team at the helm?

Fuck.

Yeah.

Genesis continued.

“The second missing woman was Aimee Lucas. We worked the cases since we don’t have a big police presence here. They couldn’t find a trace of the woman. No one even knew where she disappeared from.”

Tori was betting upstream with Keri, but she said nothing so as not to interrupt.

“The third one was Tiff Dunmore. She went missing right after the last one. We’re talking days between, but we don’t know how many. Tiff was a waitress at the steakhouse that is adjacent to the gentleman’s club.”

They were in that hotel, so they were aware. It was also odd that two of the victims were from the same place.

That screamed hella suspicious.

“What did Aimee Lucas do?” she asked.

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