BLOOD RIVER: A Trask Brothers Murder Mystery by C.E. Nelson

Author:C.E. Nelson [Nelson, C.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gull Lake Press
Published: 2017-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

They parked at the landing and hopped into the boat that Richie had left tied there. As Richie drove, he explained how he had been talking to the cabin owners in the area, to see if they had any information that might help. He had docked at a cabin on Basswood and had noticed the smell as he’d approached. One look inside, through the screen door, and he could see a body on the floor. With the head nearly severed like the others, there was little reason to check for a pulse.

“I taped off the area, but I haven’t called anyone else,” continued the deputy as they approached the dock.

Dave instructed Richie to call the medical examiner while he tied up the boat.

The cabin sat only about thirty feet off the water. Its split-log siding was stained army green; the doors and trim had recently been painted white. Two-foot, square, red paving stones led to the front door from the dock. Yellow crime scene tape went from tree to tree until it circled the cabin.

Dave ducked under the tape and walked up two steps to a small deck outside the door, facing the lake. No question about the smell. If there weren’t wolves close by, there soon would be.

He put on gloves and pushed the door open so he could see inside.

The door opened directly into the kitchen. Sink, stove, and refrigerator, all white, were to the left. The countertops were black Formica, the cupboards a tan birch that showed plenty of scarring, the finish worn away around the drawer handles. Spices were in a wooden rack on the wall by the stove, oven mitts hanging from a hook next to them. Three matching stainless steel canisters were aligned on the counter with a butcher-block that held an assortment of unmatched knives next to them. A white coffee maker still had half a pot in its carafe, with a cup sitting nearby.

Tan vinyl tiles ran the width of the room as you entered, reaching roughly halfway across where they gave way to a tightly woven green carpet. The tile and the carpet were worn but well cared for, clean and neat, as the entire area appeared.

At the center of the kitchen sat a wood stove on a tin sheet; the tin near the stove front black where ash and embers had hit the floor. On the far side of the room, a door was fully open to a bedroom, with another door just visible to its right. Beyond that was a hallway leading into another part of the cabin.

To the right of the front door was a square table with steel legs. Someone had draped the table in a red and white vinyl checkered tablecloth that had probably been there for twenty years. There was a square stool with a red vinyl seat on each side of the table. All the seats that Trask could see showed yellow foam through small cracks. A couch upholstered in light blue sat

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