A Dark Lure by Loreth Anne White

Author:Loreth Anne White [White, Loreth Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2015-06-30T23:00:00+00:00

Cole came out of the bathroom and entered the kitchenette rubbing his wet hair with a towel. He hooked the towel around his neck, poured himself a mug of coffee, and took his mug to the small table in front of a window that overlooked the lake.

Dusk had settled and wind was whipping up small whitecaps, but the water on the far side of the lake in the shadows was still. An angler in a float tube moved slowly back toward the campsite. A small boat was returning across the lake. In it were three people. It looked like Olivia and Burton with that kid. Her guided outing.

Cole paused, thinking of her words back at the barn. She’d read him like a book. A smile tempted his mouth. She had indeed read him—in his book. Yet while she probed his secrets, she kept her own guarded tight.

He seated himself at the table and powered up his laptop. Her mystery had him hooked, and it struck him—Olivia had reawakened his interest in something outside of finding the next bar or mindless lay. His muse was starting to whisper.

His monitor came to life, but his battery was almost out of juice. He didn’t have much time before he’d have to head up to the house to charge it again.

He typed in the ranch’s wireless code and opened up a search engine. He entered the words: Birkenhead murder.

He reached for his mug and took a sip as the results populated his screen.

While he’d conducted a cursory search on Olivia West from O’Hare Airport, he was now approaching things from a different angle. Something about that murder on the news had freaked her, and he intended to find out more.

He clicked through the links, reading. But there wasn’t much more than he’d already seen on TV or read in that Province article and op-ed piece. It appeared the police had still not identified the victim, a woman in her fifties. Again there were references to the signature killings from Watt Lake over a decade ago.

Cole took another sip, and this time he entered into the search engine the words Watt Lake murders.

A long list of links came up, most of them to archived news stories. And there were plenty.

He scanned the stories one by one as he sipped his coffee. Over a period of eight years, seven women had gone missing. The first four were sex trade workers, vulnerable women who’d vanished along a highway to the north. It was only in retrospect that a pattern had been identified. The women all disappeared around Thanksgiving, just before a big snowfall. The fifth had been a young married mother whose car had broken down on a remote road north of Watt Lake. Her car had been found abandoned. At the time it had been presumed that she’d tried to walk for help and had gotten lost and perished in the snowstorm that had blown in. The sixth woman was an angler who’d gotten separated from her fishing party.

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