A Mew Beginning by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2020-05-12T05:00:00+00:00

After we ate, we headed toward the closest marina, hoping to find someone who knew where we might find Fairchild. As it turned out, Fairchild wasn’t all that hard to find. As we’d been told yesterday, his boat was docked at a huge estate that served as a vacation home for a tech millionaire who lived in Seattle.

“Permission to come aboard?” Cody called out after we arrived at the boat.

A man with a scraggly gray beard and equally gray hair poked his head out from the cabin below. “And who might you be?” he asked.

“My name is Cody West, and this is my wife, Cait. Orson Cobalter was a friend. In fact, I bought the Madrona Island News from him when he decided to retire.”

“Retire? The guy is dead.”

“Yes, I know Orson is dead,” Cody said. “But he retired before he died, and that’s when I decided to buy the newspaper. Anyway, the reason I’m here is because I hoped to speak to you about some information you provided to Orson back in the nineties.”

“I provided a lot of information to Orson over the years. What information are you specifically asking about?”

“The women who went missing between nineteen ninety-six and nineteen ninety-seven.”

“Ah.” The man walked more fully onto the deck. “I heard there have been some new cases that seem eerily similar.”

“So, do you know anything about these women?” Cody asked.

The man spit into the water. “I know something about everything.”

Cody looked at me. I shrugged.

“We were hoping to pick your brain in regards to these missing women if you’re willing,” Cody said.

“You have cash?”

“Cash?” Cody asked.

“I’m an informant, not a freaking charity. If you want to know what I know, you’re going to need cash.”

“How much?” Cody asked, pulling his wallet out.

“A hundred bucks will get you invited aboard. We’ll have some whiskey and talk a bit. Depending on how that goes, we can work things out from there.”

Cody pulled five twenties out of his wallet and handed them to the man.

“Okay. Come on aboard. I’ll grab the whiskey and some glasses, and you can ask me your questions.”

I had to admit that the man was an interesting sort.

“So, what do you want to know?” the man asked after throwing back what I suspected would be the first shot of many.

“Back in nineteen ninety-six, a woman was found floating in the sea by some fishermen,” Cody began. “Her leg had been severed beneath the knee, and most everyone figured she was the victim of a shark attack and left it at that. The woman didn’t have an ID on her, of course, and her body had been pretty mutilated after being in the sea, so she was listed as a Jane Doe. There was an attempt to figure out who the woman actually was, but after a bit of a search, nothing popped, so law enforcement personnel in the area moved on to other things. Orson, however, was like a dog with a bone. He became really invested in figuring out who this Jane Doe actually was, so he began to dig deeper.

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