Cavanaugh in the Rough by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romantic suspense
Publisher: Harlequin Romantic Suspense
Published: 2016-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“I think I’ve maybe finally found her,” Suzie announced some five hours later, fingering the tiny gold cross around her neck. The one she never took off, because it was the last thing her mother had given her before their world imploded.

Her neck and shoulders were killing her. She’d been hunched over her computer, carefully reading all the missing person’s reports that had been filed with different police departments throughout the state. They were all on young women who had been reported missing around the general time period that their coroner had estimated this particular Jane Doe had been killed.

It completely astonished Suzie that there were so many missing young women between the ages of seventeen and thirty who had never been found.

“Good,” Chris said, getting up from his computer and circling around to her desk to take a look at her screen. “Because I’m definitely getting blurred vision, going through all those old files.” He shook his head, thinking of the reports he’d been reading. “Something’s seriously wrong when so many girls go missing.”

Suzie leaned back in her chair to allow him to get a better view of the report she had currently pulled up on her screen.

He read the description out loud. “‘Cara Wilson, twenty-one, aspiring model. Blond, five-nine, 120 pounds.’” Chris stepped back. Although he didn’t mind the close proximity to Suzie, he had a feeling she might have something to say about it. “So far, that could describe Bethany Miller,” he commented.

Suzie didn’t disagree. There was something eerily similar between the dead girls. She had a sick feeling that maybe this was the tip of the iceberg.

First things first, she reminded herself. She needed to identify Jane Doe.

“The report was filed by her mother. According to this, Cara’s roommate said Cara took off for a party she was certain was going to be her ‘ticket to the career she felt she was destined for.’ The roommate, Jill Barnes, said that Cara told her she could come along, too, but Jill came down with food poisoning the afternoon before the party and couldn’t go.” Suzie had read and reread the report. She knew it by heart at this point. “Cara never came back.”

Chris skimmed to the bottom of the report. “According to the investigating officer, the roommate had no idea where the party was being held, only that Cara said it was really ingenious.” He looked at Suzie, not wanting to jump to conclusions. “Could mean anything.”

Suzie had no such reservations. “Could also mean a ‘floating party’ like the one in the abandoned department store.” She shifted her chair so that she was looking at Chris directly. “We could get some personal item from Cara’s mother to compare to the unidentified dead girl’s DNA.”

He didn’t want Suzie getting too excited yet. “Cara’s mother might have moved.”

Not if the woman was waiting for her daughter to come home, Suzie thought. “Well, we won’t find out sitting here, will we?” she said, already on her feet and halfway to the door.

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