A Forest So Deadly (Pioneer Falls Book 2) by Heather Davis

Author:Heather Davis [Davis, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Pioneer Falls • Book Two
Publisher: Heather Davis
Published: 2017-11-04T05:00:00+00:00

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After we said good night, I went inside and shut the door, still feeling the sensation of Morgan’s lips on mine. The house was quiet. Fawn wasn’t back from the dance with Lewis. I put Rose’s corsage on a table in the hall and hung up my coat.

“Lily?” Dad called from the living room where he was waiting up.

“Yeah, it’s me.” I found him on the couch, a pile of papers spread out in front of him on the coffee table. A half-filled bowl of popcorn rested nearby, probably Rose’s. Dad grabbed the remote and switched off the car chase scene that was playing on the TV.

Still in his uniform, he didn’t seem like he’d had any chance to relax that evening. He was holding his still-healing arm close to his body. “Don’t you look nice,” he said, looking up with a smile. “I like the sequins. Did you have fun?”

I took a seat in the armchair. “We had the best time. Thanks for letting me go.”

“Morgan made a good case,” he said, a smile flitting across his lips. “As did you the other night.” He scratched at scruffy cheek. “I’ve been thinking about Mrs. Gillingham and that phone. I pulled the complete file on Ivan’s case, just to review it so you’d have some peace of mind.”

I leaned forward, clapping my hands together. “You did?”

“The medical examiner does mention some internal damage consistent with an impact. If what your sources are saying is true, that there were some visitors at the compound…a hit-and-run or some other trauma does seem like a possibility. Maybe Ivan ran from the house and was hit on the road before he made it to the woods.”

“Or before he was dumped in the woods,” I said. “He was found miles from his house, right? That’s why they originally thought it might be you. We didn’t even know Ivan was missing for a couple of days.” I slipped off my high heels and drew my feet up underneath my legs.

“So if he was found in the woods, why was his phone back at the house?” Dad said.

“That bothered me too. The last text he supposedly sent was strange, right? All abbreviated like normal people, not like Ivan’s other awkward texts. Someone else wrote it.”

“So the murderer kills Ivan at an unknown location, dumps him in the woods, returns his phone to the house and texts Mrs. Gillingham, then busts up the house,” Dad said, scratching at his sideburns. “Screwing up the timeline. Making it seem like he’d been attacked at home and dragged out to the woods.”

“So who would benefit from Ivan’s death? I mean, that’s what we should look at, right, follow the money? That’s what all the investigative journalists say to do.”

Dad gave me a side-eyed glanced, as if to say this was his turf, not mine. “Cooper inherited the homestead. He’s got an estranged sister who was left a tiny sum of money. There were some real estate holdings on Main Street that

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