Mystery Minute 04.08

Truth Tellers begins at Part One HERE.

Part Eight

Capt. Finbar “Finny” Lonnigan leaned back in his desk chair and took a slow, deep breath. His showdown with Mayrie was put off for a few hours and now he was faced with the procedure of looking into the death of somebody in Tony Spinoza’s house last night as they lost the race against the flames to the door.

With some luck, later today there might be a positive identification of the charred body, and his squad of investigators on the scene might be able to pinpoint a cause for the fire that gutted Tony’s house. While he waits for those two results, he might as well start hounding the loan shark’s acquaintences and see who turns up missing and what they’ve been doing lately.

This is one of those days that he was glad to have a spare change of clothes in the office. Grabbing those and his shaving kit, he headed out the door and started driving over to Station 4 to shower, shave and change. He had no way of knowing that he’d never make it to the warm shower.

Read Part Nine HERE.

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