A Killing Frost by Hannah Alexander

Author:Hannah Alexander [Alexander, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: thriller

Chapter Twenty-Four

Tyrell’s crew had the hay bales set and ready to light as soon as the temperature dropped far enough on the large thermometer mounted on the side of the nearest shed. He also had a cord of firewood scheduled for delivery any minute. The crew had stacked limbs for bonfires down by the peach and apple trees.

There was something about dependence on God’s mercy for a livelihood that made a man realize just how puny he was in the scheme of the universe. And yet, God still showed that mercy.

Tyrell’s cell phone beeped yet again.

As he flipped open the phone, a truck entered the property through the front gate a quarter mile from the house. The wood was arriving.

“Me again,” Renee’s voice informed him over the airwave. “You made a bunch of phone calls this afternoon, didn’t you?”

“Everybody in my book.”

“Calls have been coming in fast and furious. There are reports of a brown pickup speeding southeast of Columbia on H Highway near the Mark Twain National Forest, and one report of a truck with the same description headed east on Highway 94.”

He felt a flare of hope. “That sounds as if the truck’s headed toward River Dance.”

“That’s what I think, too,” Renee said, “but why?”

“If they’re on their way to St. Louis, 94 is a good route to take to be less visible than on the interstate. Old farm trucks are commonplace in this area.” And Tyrell knew a lot of old farmers along the highway who could be on the lookout for that pickup.

“Do you think Doriann could have somehow convinced her abductors to drive to River Dance?” Renee asked.

“An eleven-year-old girl is not likely to convince these people of anything.” Tyrell waved to the driver of the wood truck to pull around to the back of the house. “Just because several people spotted a brown truck on 94 doesn’t mean it’s the truck driven by Doriann’s abductors.” Although that was exactly what Tyrell hoped. “That kind of thinking could mess up an FBI operation.”

“Obviously, it isn’t going to mess up this one. No one is listening to me.”

He heard the frustration in her voice. “Don’t feel bad. Police get faulty tips all the time.”

“Three of them? All in the same area? And don’t forget the truck was spotted leaving I-70 suddenly.”

“Wasn’t that because of information the abductors might have heard over the scanner?”

“Merely supposition. Believe me, I know how capable Doriann is of making up very believable stories, and nobody knows if that truck was headed to St. Louis.”

“I understand from the news reports that’s where these people came from in the first place.”

“Well, maybe not both of them.”

“What do you mean?” Tyrell asked.

“Description of the woman with him has changed.”

“You mean there may be three killers?”

“It’s possible, Tyrell.”

“That wasn’t reported on the news.”

“It isn’t something the FBI wants to reveal yet. I’ve learned these agents do what they want when they want, and nobody changes their minds.”

“If the reported sighting was of the right truck,

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