“Harding Fellows. Gotcha, you bastard.” Rapp started tapping into his phone, and Jane smiled with satisfaction.
Finally. An answer to one of their many questions. Now they needed to find Fellows in time to get some useful information from him.
Before whoever ordered him to kill her found him first.
CHAPTER TWENTY
Finding Harding Fellowsturned out to be more difficult than Jane would have thought. The police had no luck rounding him up, and Diego’s search didn’t yield any answers.
The day after that interesting meeting with Rapp’s tattoo friend, while they all sat around the conference table in the office, Diego tried using some new software he’d been fiddling around with the night before. He typed some other details of Fellows into the computer.
Not five minutes later, an address popped up. The residence belonged to Fellows’ sister, who had since moved. Her forwarded mail led them nowhere, so Diego worked some magic with an algorithm he’d developed to find stubborn people.
That led to a home in Kent.
Jane figured the woman would be hesitant to say anything. And she probably would have been on a normal day. Today, though, her brother owed her money, so she gave them a location before they’d had to ask twice. The phone call had lasted maybe two minutes.
“I know where that is,” Jane said, familiar with the area one of her CIs frequented.
“So do I,” Gina said.
“I thought you were new to the area.”
“I’m originally from here. I’ve just moved around a lot. I’ll go with you to grab him.” Oddly, Gina had been acting friendlier than she had in the entire time Jane had known her. Perhaps the woman had finally thawed toward Jane’s presence.
Rapp shook his head. “We’ll have the police pick him up and sit on him. Then you two can have a crack at interrogating him.” He looked from Gina to Jane. “Like I’ve already said, we go around in pairs. Got it?”
“What about you?” Jane asked, annoyed to have a partner. Especially Gina. She much preferred working alone when she could. “Taking Diego with you?”
Rapp nodded and stood, looking down at her. “As a matter of fact, I am.”
Diego looked less than thrilled at the news. “Seriously? Why do I have to go? Where are we going? Will there be food?”
“We’re going to talk to the officers at the station that lost Fellows. I didn’t like their answers yesterday. Maybe today they’ll remember something more. And you didn’t find anything on our end, but maybe in person you’ll see something that makes sense about their jacked-up computers.”
“I hate cops. They have the worst coffee.” Diego continued to complain as Rapp led him out of the room.
Gina stared at Jane. “The eye looks better.”
Jane swallowed a groan. “Does everyone know?”
“I saw it the other day, but I didn’t want to pry.” As always, Gina looked perfectly buttoned up, this time in a dark blue pantsuit. The woman had a grudge against jeans.
Gina added, as if in afterthought, “I’m not sure I like you.”
“Back at you.”
They nodded to each other.
“But we’re on the same team, so we’ll work together,” Gina announced, as if giving Jane no alternative.
Jane appreciated blunt honesty. “What exactly is your problem with me?”
“Other than the fact we were doing just fine before you arrived? You keep annoying Rapp. I like the way he runs things. Don’t screw it up for the rest of us.”
“Rest of who? You and Diego? He seems just fine as long as you keep him full of energy drinks,goodcoffee, and donuts.”
Gina crossed her arms over her chest. “Your need to be admired and catered to is sad, but I’m chalking it up to your youth and inexperience. Still, you got results, so that’s something.”
