Chapter 29: What the Seal Preserves

The county kept seized vehicles behind two fences and a man in a booth who wanted everyone's name twice. Mobile Unit 6 stood alone in a covered bay, its doors sealed with red evidence tape. Su had brought Mo to walk the preservation inventory with an evidence officer, because half the objects on it had no modern name. They were signing the last page when a black car stopped outside the fence. Two men came through the gate. The first carried a leather folio and the expression of a man about to be correct. The second was broad through the shoulders, in a tan coat, with gray shadow around his mouth. Mo knew the description before he heard the name. The woman in the ambulance had given it to Su. "Detective Su." The broad man stopped at the edge of the tape and did not cross it. "Derek Madsen. Breakwater…