Lineup

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Author: Liad Shoham
Tags: thriller, adventure, Mystery
her. Her father stood next to her bed throughout the interview, urging her to answer his questions. Her mother just held her, not saying anything.
    NACHUM had a lot of years on the job. Before that he’d been a guard in a military prison. When he left the army, it seemed natural to join the police force. He started out in logistics, but all he ever wanted was to be a detective. He’d put in one application after another, undeterred by repeated rejections. He never gave up, even though everyone else gave up on him. Finally, after making sergeant, they let him take the detective test and he got his gold shield.
    He’d seen almost everything in his long career: homicide, rape, domestic violence, child molesters. He’d worked nearly every crime on the books. Over the years, his daily encounter with human malevolence and atrocious acts of violence had blunted his sensitivity. But there were still cases that broke through the wall he’d been forced to build around himself in order to do his job, cases that gripped his heart and wouldn’t let go. The sight of Adi Regev, barely more than a child, whose joy in life had been stolen away from her in an instant, touched him at the very core of his being. His daughter was just a year and half younger than Adi. At the moment Adi looked like the complete opposite of his strong, independent, ambitious daughter, but he couldn’t help imagining his own child in the same situation, as the victim of such appalling brutality.
    Adi had arrived at the hospital almost seventy-two hours after the rape. He was well aware that after so much time had elapsed, there was little chance of finding any of the attacker’s DNA on her, especially when she’d scrubbed herself all over.
    He thought they’d have more luck with the crime scene. It wasn’t fresh, but it was so isolated that it hadn’t been contaminated. However, it didn’t give them much to go on. In her short struggle with the rapist, Adi hadn’t drawn blood, and there were no signs of semen on the ground. Nor did they find the knife or any usable fingerprints. The only evidence the scene yielded were partial shoe prints—Nike runners, size 10.
    His team had been working the case hard in the past month. They started by looking for witnesses, going from door to door, talking to all the neighbors. No one had seen or heard anything. They’d all been closed up in their apartments, sleeping or watching TV.
    Even though Adi said she didn’t recognize her attacker, they still questioned all her ex-boyfriends and anyone she’d dated even once. And she dated a lot, that girl. But every lead was a dead end. They had her look over mug shots of known rapists and other sex offenders, hoping she could identify him from a photo. Nothing came of that either.
    Nachum rubbed his eyes in exhaustion. He had glorious achievements on his record, but some resounding failures too. In the end, he thought, it’s the failures that stay with you. Even after all these years, he could still list every one of them. And he didn’t need anyone to remind him. Most definitely not some slimy reporter like Amit Giladi. He knew what people were saying behind his back. They said he was getting old, that he was losing his touch, that he spent too much time on each case, that it took him too long to put his cases to bed, if he was lucky enough to solve them.
    Detectives used to be applauded for solving complicated cases. Today it was all about tables, statistics, arrest rates. Fucking CompStat had taken over their lives. Detectives were assessed solely by their output, as if they worked on a production line. He knew all the gimmicks his colleagues used to sweeten their figures. They looked out for easy cases, closed cases by the truckload supposedly for lack of evidence, and persuaded people to withdraw their complaints. He could easily do the same and get a pat on the back. It might even earn him a promotion. But he was too old for that sort of thing, and maybe, like
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