: Barbara Lefka
: The Cult of the White Owl A Jake Guiliani Mystery Series
: BookBaby
: 9781543970173
: 1
: CHF 6.30
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: Krimis, Thriller, Spionage
: English
: 300
: kein Kopierschutz
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB
The Cult of the White Owl is a complex story about a man who became possessed by a White Owl that lived in his garden and resided on a limb of his Chestnut Tree. Before meeting the White Owl he was a mild mannered, hard working councilman elected by the people of Philadelphia to do a job and look out for their interests. Which he did faithfully. He married a much younger , and beautiful woman and his life changed dramatically. She shopped and the bills became enormous and his friend Tony McCane asked him to help start a camera club and have his wife pose along with her society girl friends. She was flattered and accepted. Things got more complicated until murder became a part of the game and blackmail.

CHAPTER2

The mayor called at six the following morning and told Jake that Cat still had not comehome.

“Since it has been twenty-four hours. We can declare Caterina a missing person and set about locating her in earnest. Not that I hold to that rule, the precinct is on alert already. Let me hang up, so I can assign my team their specific duties. We will be over the house to tap the phones and do whatever, to bring her home safely, see you soon.” Jake threw off the covers and headed for the shower to re-energize. Draping a towel around his athletic body, he shaved and brushed his teeth thinking a myriad of thoughts…. the fight, Crystal, Cat and how to start finding a missing person in a city brimming over with people. Some how he would do it, with the help of his team. The closest thing to a family hehad!

Jake arrived at police headquarters; sharp, well dressed and ready to take on the challenges of the day. He asked Annie to call a staff meeting to outline the news of Caterina’s disappearance the night before, and how to proceed further. Sipping his coffee as he addressed his men, he asked Murphy his lead detective, to send a team to question the neighbors, and gather info as to what they might have seen or heard, anything at all suspicious or out of the way. Then he asked Burnsey and his newly appointed partner Officer Johnny Davis to accompany him to the mayor’s house to search the place in depth. Jake asked them to organize a team of personnel they thought would do a thorough job. Jake then handed Annie the photograph of Cat and asked her to alert the news media and give them the story.

“Annie before you release the photo to the press make copies for our teams on the new Zerox machine, so they can have Cat’s picture front and center in their squadcars.”

Jake then fished out the picture of the very handsome unknown man that was found in the letter and asked detectives Scott Anderson and Tom Wilson to call on Tony McCane Studios to get any information he might have or remember about the man in the photo, and report their findings to Detective Burns.

Burnsey interrupted Jake, “Chief do you mind if I cover the photography studio myself. I have an important errand to do for Mrs. Burns, which won’t interfere with my interview with Tony McCane, but it will get me points with my wife, what do you saysir?”

“Okay I don’t see that as a problem, it eliminates the middle-men