Chapter Six
Erik gave a quick nod to the two uniformed officers keeping the small crowd of curious residents away from the crime scene, which was an apartment in the middle levels of a residential tower.
There was nothing distinctive about the tower, and the apartment, although large, wasn’t much more impressive than Erik’s. He kept an unnecessarily big place as part of his cover, but neither he nor the victim lived in a sprawling tower-top mansion.
Jia’s eyebrow lifted as they stepped into the apartment.
A well-dressed middle-aged woman lay on her side on the floor, sunken into her carpet. She was impaled through the heart by a small flat-topped flagpole. The normally blue-and-white UTC flag and the white of her carpet were half red with splatters of her blood. She’d also coughed bloo
