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Castle: A Fictional Narrative

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“Are you finding anything?” Castle asked as he searched the papers for any sign that something changed in Amy Dehner’s life. “‘Cause so far all I’ve figured out is she went to the same coffee shop almost everyday around eight o’clock.”
“No,” Beckett responded, annoyed at the lack of leads there were with this case. “She barely spent any money on anything other than takeout and - wait a minute.”
“What?”
“Three days before she died Amy spent thirty dollars on a cab.” He raised an eyebrow at the excitement in her eyes, not understanding what was special about a cab ride.
“So? She took a cab almost every day.”
“But look at the charges every other day. Look at the how much each charge was.”
He looked at the paper he was currently holding then looked at the next one in his pile, focusing on cab charges.
“They’re all around fifteen dollars.”
“Exactly. So why did she spend twice as much that day?”
“Okay, thanks,” Beckett said before hanging up the phone.
“So where did she …show more content…

“No crazy theories?” Beckett questioned. Usually by now he had some sort of story to go along with the murder, but they also usually had a bit more information by now.
“A few, but I can’t find one that explains more than just a couple details.” His frustrated huff made her smile. His dedication to finding a story, no matter how obscure, was one of the things she adored about him.
“I’m sure you’ll think of something,” she reassured him. “Hopefully the boys’ll come back with something that’ll pull some of this together.”
It turned out that Ryan and Esposito did find something out during their chat with Hannah. Amy did have a boyfriend, Troy Reiser, that hadn’t come up during Beckett’s talk with the young woman’s family. As far as the roommate knew, Troy came from money and lived with his parents in

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