Cold Call: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery by Smith Dean Wesley

Author:Smith, Dean Wesley [Smith, Dean Wesley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: WMG Publishing
Published: 2015-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

May 15, 2015

10 A.M.

A home across the lake from the Tamarack Ski Resort,

Near Cascade, Idaho

The cabin was as Lott had expected. Not a cabin at all, but a huge, modern mansion sitting on a slight rise looking out over an expansive blue lake that seemed to almost shimmer in the morning sun. On the far side of the lake was a massive lodge and ski runs cut out of the trees above the lodge. There was still some snow near the tops of the ridges, but not much.

The cabin had a huge green lawn and flowerbeds around the bases of pine trees. The lawn sloped down to the lake and a large ski-boat sat at the long wooden dock.

The road in, as promised, had been paved and they had passed dozens of other similar mansions along the water. The cabin, as Doc called it, was only about five miles off the main highway and about fifteen miles from McCall.

The house came to life on its own as they entered. A massive gas fireplace that dominated the living room sprang to life as lights came on, clearly triggered by motion sensors.

The place had six bedrooms up a wide wooden staircase and a huge main area that had an open feel of kitchen, large dining table, and vast living room all combined. Everything was done in wood tones, including the wonderful-looking couches and chairs around the fireplace.

Two-story-tall windows opened the living room up to look out over the lake, making the inside feel almost like a patio.

“Wow,” Julia said, looking around.

Lott had to agree. “Wow” expressed seeing this place perfectly.

“No wonder you and your family are comfortable here in the summer,” Lott said to Fleet.

“The kids really love the lawn and the lake and the boat,” Fleet said.

“I’ve really got to learn how to play poker,” Agent Munn said as she looked around, shaking her head.

Lott and Julia were shown to guest rooms up the wide wooden staircase by Annie, and both given time to take showers and change clothes while lunch was prepared.

Lott had started to feel extremely rummy and tired from lack of sleep and the helicopter and then the car ride, but the shower refreshed him. And getting into clean clothes helped as well.

Now some lunch and a good cup of coffee and he might almost feel half human again. But there was no doubt he was going to need a good night’s sleep tonight. He was just too old to be staying up all night. Those days of doing that on stakeouts were long past him.

Julia looked just as refreshed as he felt when she came down the stairs a few minutes after he had joined the other four in the kitchen. Lott had taken a chair at the brown granite kitchen counter facing into the kitchen and Annie was working on sandwiches.

Doc stood to one side watching and drinking a Diet Coke out of a bottle.

Some sort of chicken soup cooking in a large pot on

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