The Nassau Secret (The Lang Reilly Series Book 8) by Gregg Loomis Read Free Book Online

happened.”
                  Phil did, finishing with, “. . .And that’s why I have no intent of hanging around here in the hospital, waiting for the bastards to finish the job.”
                  “Sounds like they were trying to scare you off, not kill you.”
                  A hollow laugh. “Swell! You can bet your ass on that, not mine.”
                  “I suppose the police are involved?”
                  “’Involved?’ That would be a stretch. They’ve been trying to convince me the couple of Martinis I had with dinner made me so drunk I fell. Hell, I could’ve fallen off a two-story house and not gotten banged up this bad. But, you know, attacks on Americans are bad for the tourist trade.”
                  “The guys took your wallet?”
                  “Nah. They wanted to be sure I got the message.”
                  “And that is?”
                  “Be on the next stage outta Dodge.”
                  Lang thought for a minute. “Any idea why?”
                  “Theory, not fact.”
                  “And that is?”
                  “The woman, Livia, disappeared after seeing that exhibit at the library. We visited the place ths afternoon. The old biddy, the librarian, was terrified when the subject came up. I’d say Livia did or said something related to that exhibit that set somebody off.”
                  “But the thing was open to the public. God only knows how many people saw it. I haven’t read about masses vanishing from Nassau.”
                  “That’s one of the things I don’t get, either.”
                  “The exhibit, what did Celeste say about it?”
                  “Old photos and stuff about a murder that happened here in the 1940’s. Doesn’t sound like something to get worked up about.”
                  “OK, Phil, get on the next flight out. See if you can get Celeste to join you. You’re being paid to dig up facts, not risk your life.”
                  “Lang, I know you too well to believe you are just going to walk away from this.”
                  “Never said I was. Get on back here before they kill you next time.”  
                  Lang ended the call and stood in the hallway. He turned to go back into the bedroom, changed his mind and went downstairs. In the kitchen, he loaded up the Mr. Coffee before moving to the tiny former broom closet under the stairs where he booted up the computer that occupied a small table. A chair was the only other furniture the space could accommodate.
                  He called up Google.
    10.
                                     
                                 
    Nassau Guardian
    The Bahamas Oldest Newspaper
     
    WOMAN’S BODY FOUND NEAR ADELAID
     
                              The body of an American  woman  identified as Livia Haynesworth, 32, was                                    found on the rocks of South West Bay near Adeliade yesterday.
                  Ms. Haynesworth was vacationing at Atlantis and reported missing two days ago. What took her so far from the Paradise Island resort is unknown.
                  “I have no idea why she was there,” said her distraught traveling companion,   Celeste   Harper, 40, of Atlanta , Georgia. “She was just going out shopping and I never heard from her again. The police were less than helpful.”
                  South West Bay has no beach and is not a place regularly visited by tourists.
                  The body was found by 14 year old Rihinna Newsome who was attempting to salvage a fishing net that had washed ashore. Ms.