Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch by B. J. Daniels

Author:B. J. Daniels [Daniels, B. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781426830662
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

“I NEED TO RUN an errand,” Dana said the moment Hilde returned. “Can you watch the shop?”

“Are you all right? I saw Hud leaving as I was pulling in,” her friend said.

“The woman in the well was Ginger Adams. That’s what he came by to tell me.”

Hilde frowned. “Ginger Adams? Not the Ginger who your dad…”

“Exactly,” Dana said, pulling on her coat. “I’ll be back.”

Her father had a small place along the river on the way to Bozeman.

Dana took the narrow dirt road back into his cabin. His truck was parked out back. She pulled up next to it and got out. A squirrel chirped at her from a nearby towering evergreen; the air smelled of river and pine.

When she got no answer to her knock, she tried the door. Of course it opened. No one locked their doors around here. She stepped inside, struck by a wash of cool air, and saw that the door leading to the river was open. He must have gone fishing.

She walked out onto the deck, looked down the river and didn’t see him. Turning, she spotted her father’s gun cabinet and moved to it.

There were numerous rifles, several shotguns and a half dozen different boxes of cartridges and shells. No .38 pistol though.

“What are you looking for?”

Dana jumped at the sound of her father’s voice behind her. She turned, surprised by his tone. “You startled me.” She saw his expression just before it changed. Fear?

“You need to borrow a gun?” he asked, stepping past her to close the gun cabinet.

“I was looking for your .38.”

He stared at her as if she’d spoken in a foreign language.

“The one you always kept locked in the cabinet.”

He glanced at the gun cabinet. “I see you found the key.”

“You’ve hidden it in the same place since I was nine.” She waited. He seemed to be stalling. “The .38?”

“Why do you want the .38?”

“Are you going to tell me where it is or not?” she said, fear making a hard knot in her stomach.

“I don’t know where it is. Wasn’t it in the cabinet?”

Her father had never been a good liar. “Dad, are you telling me you don’t have it?” She could well imagine what Hud was going to think about that.

“Why do you care? It wasn’t like it was worth anything.”

She shook her head. “Do I have to remind you that Ginger Adams was killed with a .38 and her remains were found on our property?”

All the color drained from his face in an instant. “Ginger?” He fumbled behind him, feeling for a chair and finding one, dropped into it. “Ginger?”

His shock was real. Also his surprise. He hadn’t known it was Ginger in the well. “They’re sure it’s Ginger?” he asked, looking up at her.

She nodded. Had her father really cared about the woman? “Dad, you know Hud will want to see a .

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