RECAP:
"My plane has a flight to Italy tomorrow...thought you might want to ride along." Touya stopped at the side of the road to concentrate on the phone conversation.
"Sure, that would be nice but I don't know when I can leave. I mean if I did leave, I would need to be back in Japan as soon as the autopsy of the body announced its homicide."
"It's okay; my plane will not leave without you. Call my pilot, Nigel and talk to him about the arrangement and if ever you need to be back in Japan you can use my plane." Shuuichi gave Nigel's number while Touya copied it down.
Finally something was going well today...
"Thanks! I'll see what I can do about it." Touya said as he started his engine and continued to drive towards the crime scene.
"Your welcome!" Shuuichi answered him and at both closed their cell phones at the same time.
Chapter Twenty: Definitely A Homicide
Touya arrived to the crime scene. He got out of his car and went straight to a officer who had responded to the neighbor's call.
"Detective." The officer said as he saw Touya approach and gave him a handshake.
"What have we got?" Touya asked looking at the house then to an SUV pulling up in the driveway.
"A well-known lawyer found dead in his bed." The officer said handing Touya an identification card of the victim.
"Atty Michael Grant." Touya read as the woman from the SUV approach them. 'Isn't Atty Michael Grant the family lawyer of the Minaminos?' Touya thought as he tried to put things together.
"What do we got?" The woman said breaking Touya's chain of thoughts.
"We got a DB, male at his late 50's." Touya said professionally as he handed the woman the victim's identification card while the officer who was with them bade them goodbye and left for patrol.
"So, Jamie, could you do me a favor?" Touya asks as they made their way towards the bedroom.
"If it's related to a case of course…but if not I don't know because it might take a while." Jamie said as Touya opened the bedroom door wide for her. "Our men got their hands full of cases right now and every CSI is on the clock for 2 straight days now." Jamie added as she and Touya started to process the scene.
"I'm just going to ask you if you could check some people in my list of passengers." Touya said as he took a piece of paper that was lying on top of the pillow with his glove-protected hand.
"What passenger?" Jamie asked Touya looking up to him after collecting some blood evidence.
"I'll explain later." Touya said as he read the message written in the piece of paper. It was addressed to him.
"What does it say?" Jamie asked when she saw Touya's face go pale all of a sudden.
Ready to play a mind game Detective Touya?
Can you put the pieces of puzzle together?
Will you still have time if ever you did put the puzzle together?
I'll give you a clue Detective so listen up and think.
This is not the only crime. There are two more.
Now, do your best Detective before I get them both.
I'm watching you!
"Does it make any sense to you?" Jamie asked after she finished reading the letter that Touya had passed her.
"Not much, I need to think it through but I'll tell you if I get a clue." Touya said getting the paper back from Jamie and putting it in an envelope for processing.
"I'm finished here, I'm going back to the lab and then the autopsy room." Jamie said as she got ready to leave. "Do you have some time to talk about everything with me?" Jamie added looking at him.
"Gather everything you can on this case. I'm going to interview the neighbor who found the body then I'll see you tomorrow morning to tell you what I've got." Touya said as they both made their way out of the house.
"You seem like you're in hurry but I know you're already know something so just give me something to work on until tomorrow." Jamie crossed her arms over chest and looked the blue-haired detective dead in the eye.
"Minamino." Touya said as he help Jamie to her car before making his was to the neighbor.
After Jamie left, Touya went to talk to the neighbor who had found the body.
"Excuse me I'm Detective Touya, can you answer some question?" Touya asked the middle-aged lady who found the body.
"Of course anything to help for the investigation." The lady said who had introduced herself as Kauro.
"How well did you know the deceased Miss Kauro?" Touya took out a pen and a small notebook. In a murder case anything and everything counted.
"I water his plant and feed his dog. Mr. Grant's wife died 2 years ago and his son in an accident 3 years ago." Kauro explained.
"You got keys for his house?" Touya said as he wrote the information down.
"Yes, he gave it to me when he had hired me." Kauro said wrapping her arms around herself.
"Are you okay?" Touya asked noting that Kauro was rubbing her shoulder.
"Yes, I just never thought that Mr. Grant would die so suddenly. I mean he was a good man and everyone in this neighborhood liked him." A few tears started falling out of the woman's eyes.
"How did you come to find the body?" Touya asked noting to himself that it was the last question he would ask if he could help it.
"After I watered his plants, I was about to feed his dog but Dink was nowhere to be found. I started calling him when I suddenly saw him; he was barking like mad then ran upstairs. I followed him and he led me to Mr. Grant's bedroom and he was dead…lying in a puddle of blood on the carpet. I immediately called the ambulance then they called you guys." Kauro told the story to Touya as he wrote everything down.
"Thank you ma'am." Touya said, "Here's my card. Call me if you remember anything else." Touya added handing Kauro his card then left towards Minamino's private airstrip to meet Nigel for their 6 AM flight.
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