Andi Marquette - The Ties That Bind by Andi Marquette

Author:Andi Marquette
Language: fr
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781935053798
Publisher: YELLOW ROSE BOOKS
Published: 2009-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

I LEANED AGAINST my car, waiting for the rest of my motley posse to finish up in the motel so we could head over to Shiprock. The late morning sun forecasted a summer day, but the breeze presaged fall, a crisp, cool undercurrent flowing down from Colorado. With one hand, I held a cup of Starbucks coffee and with the thumb of the other, I speed-dialed Chris. She picked up on the second ring.

"Hey, esa. I was just going to call you."

"Yeah, yeah. You say that to all the girls."

Chris laughed. "So what's up? Did you see the autopsy report?"

"Yes. This morning. Detective Simmons was very amenable, as you suspected." I set my cup down and rubbed my forehead for a moment, trying to stave off a headache. "There's some weird shit in it."

"Like what?"

I took another sip of coffee and set the cup back down on the hood of my car next to my legal pad, hoping the caffeine would help with my headache, since I hadn't had any yet and it was almost lunchtime. "Okay," I said, scanning my notes. "Bill's body was found off one of those unmarked roads near the Shiprock formation. Graded dirt, not used much. You know how it is out there. Long stretches of nothing but wind and sagebrush. The Medical Examiner estimates the time of death within about five days of his body being found. That would put his death around the Saturday after he mailed the letter to River, or maybe Sunday."

"What day did you see that newspaper article?"

"It was in Saturday's paper, a week after Bill disappeared. According to Simmons, his body was found on Wednesday morning but the story wasn't released for a couple of days as they started the investigation."

"Who found him?" Chris's questions were crisp and clipped out of long habit of taking reports and collecting concise information.

"Um--" I searched my notes. "A guy named Tom Manyhorses. Simmons talked to him and took a statement. She said he's an older rancher guy out there who was on his way to town on Wednesday. She's originally from that area. She asked him who else lived out there and he said two other families, but they don't need to pass by the spot where Bill was to get to town. The road dead-ends just past Manyhorses' place."

"So it's not beyond reason," Chris mused aloud, "that it would take a few days to find Bill's body."

"Seems that way. I think we're going to go out and have a look at the area. Sage and River both want to." Can't say I'm looking forward to that.

"Injuries?"

I looked at my notes again. "Consistent with getting hit by a car. The ME concluded that Bill was hit on his left side. From the way the bones fractured, the point of impact came from behind, so the car was traveling on the right side of the road, as it should've been, and its right front end hit Bill hard enough to knock him off the road and twenty to thirty feet away from the graded part.

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