Chapter 41 “You’ve been keeping me very busy, Chief,” said Dr. Laura Venegas before diluting a reserved grin from her lips, quickly deeming it inappropriate.
The sun above them hung brightly, though the morning air was still cool down by the shaded bank of the reservoir.
She read no acknowledgment from Lumbergh that he’d even heard her remark. His tired eyes from a sleepless, highly stressful night were transfixed on the contents of the yellow, partially transparent body bag that was sprawled out along the padded stretcher propped up between them at the roped-off crime scene. The corpse inside was barely recognizable from the picture in the corner of the well-preserved driver’s license that the chief held in his gloved hand. The wad of gum trapped in Lumbergh’s mouth hadn’t been gnawed f
