Chapter 63: Charred Evidence
Chapter 63
Charred Evidence
I was two miles away when the phone rang. It seemed like all it did was ring. “Cataldi.”
“Gino, it’s Julie. Those addresses you gave me earlier?”
“Yeah?”
“The fire department just had a call to one of them. There’s a big blaze in a building a few blocks away.”
Aw s**t! “Which address?”
Julie gave it to me. “I’m on it. Call Tip and Delgado for me. Fill them in.”
I turned on the siren and punched the gas up to Tip-Denton speed. Fortunately, the traffic was light. From about a mile away, I saw the smoke. As I closed to within half a mile, I saw huge tongues of flames lapping the sky. The end of the road came quicker than I thought, switching from pavement to gravel. The car bounced hard. I thought the shocks broke for a minute.
