Bleed (Detective Ellie MacIntosh)

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Author: Kate Watterson
guy, except for the fact she was absolutely born to be a cop and that was never easy to live with. Maybe that was why he was relentlessly single. Casual relationships, yes. Permanence, no.
    “So Greta was telling us the truth.” Ellie set the magazine down on a small polished wooden table. “And here I would have sworn something didn’t fit quite right.”
    He would have sworn exactly the same thing. “If you were the one who had gunned down two men after you supposedly admitted hiring them to kill your ex-wife, would you arrive on her doorstep and not only tell her all about it, but set your gun on the counter where she could reach it?”
    “No.” Ellie’s smooth fall of hair moved in a symmetrical swing at her shoulders as she shook her head. “But you know, Lieutenant, people do extremely stupid things all the time I am proud to say I would never do.”
    “The other possibility is that she is responsible for all three murders. Hollywood producers aren’t the only ones with connections. Just because she said she didn’t have a gun, doesn’t mean it is the God’s truth.”
    “Yes, but unfortunately, her version of what happened makes the most sense, and there is the argument of no residue on her hands. I’m not sure anyone would buy the premise she tampered with her own alarm and enticed two men we can’t prove she even knew into climbing through a window just so she could gun them down. Opportunity aside, there’s no motive.”
    “Can’t argue that.”
    “Detectives, through there.” The receptionist pointed at a door.
    Dr. Lukens proved to contradict Carl’s perception of the professionals in the mental health care field. Tall and dark-haired, with slightly angular features, there was clear intelligence in her eyes, and as she rose and smiled, he sensed a wariness that was not at all the usual almost-condescending aura he so despised.
    “Please, have a seat.” Dr. Lukens motioned to two chairs in front of her desk and sat back down. “I assume you are here about Greta Garrison.”
    Ellie sat down. “Why would you assume that?”
    “It is all over the news. Greta killed her husband and you are homicide detectives, and she is my celebrity patient.” Dr. Lukens folded her hands on the top of her desk. “For that matter, Detective MacIntosh is working on becoming a celebrity in her own right.”
    It was true. The case had broken on the news like a crashing wave, partly because of Greta, and partly because Ellie had been in the news so often in the past year. Metzger had done his usual terse on-camera brush-off for the local stations, but no one in the state of Wisconsin was going to forget either of those cases anytime soon.
    Carl had experienced his own share of publicity and had no desire to repeat the process. He said, “Ms. Garrison killed her ex-husband after he allegedly hired two men to kill her. Any insights you could give us would be appreciated.”
    Lukens wasn’t going to budge. “You do realize that doctor/patient confidentiality means I cannot discuss any specifics with you. If my patients thought I would, my practice would sink like the Titanic . In fact, the whole profession would slam into an iceberg.”
    “We could get a court order.” Carl spoke in a neutral voice.
    “You’d have to provide a very reluctant judge with a reason her therapy was pertinent to your case, Detective.”
    “She did kill a man last night.”
    “In self-defense, as I understand it.”
    Ellie cut in. “We are here to ask what kind of medications you prescribe for Ms. Garrison. The night those two men broke in, she claims to have heard the disturbance but to have dropped back off to sleep because she had taken a drug that helps her do just that. She showed us the bottle, and you are the prescribing physician. The pharmacy where it was dispensed only shows that one medication was filled there. Are there others?”
    Dr. Lukens compressed her lips. “I think that is a question that, if I answer, I
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