Catch Me if Yukon by Maddy Hunter

Author:Maddy Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: maddy hunter;senior citizens;tourist;humor;mystery;cozy;cozy mystery;catch me if you can;maddie hunter;say no more;passport to peril;passport to peril series;passport to peril mystery series;CVR02192018;fiction;fiction novel;mystery;mystery novel;mystery books;mystery fiction;mystery series
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2018-11-19T19:25:02+00:00

twelve

We loaded the bus at seven o’clock the next morning to begin the six-hour drive north to Denali National Park and Preserve, which boasts the tallest mountain in the United States. The peak, once known as Mt. McKinley, had its original name restored by our forty-fourth president, so it’s now simply called Denali, which, loosely translated, is Athabascan for “really tall mountain.”

Athabascans don’t waste time with flowery language.

They cut right to the chase.

Given Ennis Iversen’s concern with Lorraine, Etienne and I had checked the transportation options out of Denali and had discovered that if Ennis needed to fly back to Iowa in a hurry, we could book a flight for him on a private plane flying out of one of the area’s nine smaller airfields. He’d been relieved to know he’d have a quick escape route, but that hadn’t prevented him from dragging his feet and looking really strung out when he boarded the bus. I suspected he hadn’t slept a wink all night.

Florence was no longer schlepping Thor’s photographic equipment, but she didn’t seem to be taking much pleasure in her victory. With her bloodshot eyes and barely combed hair, she was looking as ragged as Ennis. He’d told her about Lorraine’s disappearance before dinner last night, informing her first before he made the announcement to the rest of the group, and true to his prediction, the news had upset her so much that she’d been unable to eat a thing at supper. Chances were she hadn’t slept last night either, so maybe our six-hour ride would give both her and Ennis an opportunity to nap.

While Etienne and Steele posted themselves at the front and rear doors of the bus to help guests aboard, I hung out by the front door of the hotel with my clipboard, checking off names. Orphie hurried toward me weighed down with shopping bags that hung from her arms like shirts on a clothes rack.

I checked off her name. “Successful shopping trip in town yesterday, I see.”

“You bet it was. I bought something for everyone. I even bought a souvenir for Lorraine. I just hope she gets to see it.” She shook her head. “It rattles you to the bone when big city crime starts rearing its head right down the street from you.”

“Did you and Al ever get your phone calls coordinated?”

“He called me last night—from North Carolina, of all places.”

“No kidding? You never mentioned he was traveling south.”

“I didn’t know! It was a spur of the moment trip, actually. A developer contacted him about the possibility of having a hotel with an indoor water park built on the outskirts of town, so he offered to fly Al to North Carolina in his private jet so Al could tour the facility the developer built outside Asheville. It’s all so out of the blue. But we could only talk for about three minutes because his phone ran out of juice, so I only got the bare bones.”

“But we already have a water park.”

“That’s an outside facility.

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