Chapter 1
It was my first day as a homicide detective for LVPD, I had transferred from Brooklyn after having many disputes with the way things were run there. I had spoken to my best friends Uncle who was also a homicide detective for the LVPD.
I was on my first call out on the graveyard shit, I met my friends Uncle Jim Brass at the crime scene.
"Hello, Katy" Jim said, he gave me a big bear hug "Long time no see".
"Hey, I know yeah" I smiled "it's good to see you"
"How you settling in at the new place?" he asked.
"still got boxes upon boxes, but I'm getting there" I smiled.
"so your first case?" he smiled.
"yeah it's a bit intimidating, so I'm glad you're here" I replied.
"come on then, I'll fill you in" he said as he led me up towards the house.
"Did the count change since you called me?" I asked.
"yeah they found another one, so it's a quadruple. Mother, father, and two teenage boys. Only the sisters survived" Jim said.
"coincidence?" I asked.
"according to the teen girl, she heard a noise and hid in the closet" he replied.
"and the younger sister?"
"not entirely sure yet but she's over there, in the police car, refusing to speak to anyone" he said.
"no surprise there" I said.
"CSI are in there now Gil Grissom, he's the supervisor on the grave yard shift, he's pulled all his team off any other cases" Jim informed me.
"okay, so what do you need me to do?" I asked.
"when the body's have been taken by the coroner I want you to do in on the walk through with the CSI's and then the autopsy's" he said.
"No problem, and do we have any suspects?" I asked.
"we are going to question the Teen as soon as we can, I'll let you know if we need you to do anything else but as it's your first day we will get the gruesome things out the way first" he smiled.
"thanks for that" I said rolling my eyes.
I got to the front of the house and put my paper socks on, ready to go in, when I heard someone call Brass.
"hey Nick" Jim said. I turned to look and saw a muscular dark haired guy.
"we found some fresh motorbike tracks round the back, footprints and some bidi buts"
"bidi?"Jim asked.
"cheap cigarettes that are supposed to be less harmful but they aren't" I said.
Nick looked at me impressed.
"oh yeah sorry Nick, this Is Katy Jackson, she's the new homicide detective I was telling you about" Jim said.
"pleased to meet you I'm Nick Stokes CSI" he said holding out his hand.
"like wise" I smiled "can you show me what you found?" I shook his hand.
"yeah sure follow me" he smiled.
"will you be okay now?" Jim asked.
"yeah I'll call you if I need you" I smiled.
I took the shoe socks off and followed Nick. I wore a black pair of straight legged pants with a white vest and a soft black blazer, which gave me a smart but casual look. I wore flat pointed shoes that had a strap fastening around my ankle. My hair was down and straightened, I was wearing minimal make up.
"so this is your first day?" Nick smiled.
"yes, my first case" I replied.
"so you transferred from Brooklyn?, how you finding the heat?" he laughed.
"good actually, I was forever cold in Brooklyn so I'm just right here"
"that's half the battle" he added.
"so do you have any theory's yet?" I asked.
"I'm thinking someone that knows how to get in and out and especially with the bidi, I'm thinking the girls boyfriend?" he said.
"I'm with you on that one, I'm not entirely sure what I think about the teen's story yet, but then again I haven't spoke with her yet" I said.
"You haven't?" he asked.
"No I like to see the crime scene first get a feel for the evidence before I can tell if the witnesses are lying" I said.
"that's my kinda girl" he winked.
As we got around the back, I saw a light skinned black guy doing an impression of what I presume was the bike tire tracks.
"Katy this is Warwick Brown, Warwick this is Katy Jackson the new homicide detective" Nick said.
Warwick got up took his glove off and shook my hand.
"pleased to meet you Katy" he said. Warwick had the most beautiful green eyes.
"pleased to meet you too" I blushed, Warwick was gorgeous I was quite taken a back, and I lost myself for a moment.
Nick showed me the shoe prints, the match he had found and the bidi. "So we will run DNA on the bidi, check the type of bike from the tire tread" Nick said.
"These Tire and food prints are on wet ground but everywhere else was dry?" I said "Sprinkler's, are they on a timer?"
"good thinking" Nick smiled "you're showing us up"
"then we will know if the bike tracks are from the same time as the murder" I added.
"you sure you don't wanna have a job with us?" Warwick asked.
"No, I'm not clever enough" I smiled.