Dead Reckoning (The Still Waters Suspense Series Book 1) by McKenna Dawn Lee & Blackwell Axel

Author:McKenna, Dawn Lee & Blackwell, Axel [McKenna, Dawn Lee]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: The Sweet Tea Press
Published: 2017-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

EVAN SPENT MOST OF THE next morning getting a warrant to check Marlene Hutchins’ medical records at the hospital, without earning the wrath of Judge Winters for calling him on a Sunday morning. This he had to accomplish by getting Vi to tell him who would be the friendliest judge to harass, without letting Vi know what the warrant was for. All in all, it was an exhausting and stressful proposition, but by early in the afternoon, he had the warrant in his email. He printed it off immediately, grateful that Vi wasn’t in the office breathing down his neck, and hit the road.

The upside of it being Sunday, when Evan would much rather be out on the water, was that people who might otherwise be doing themselves injury seemed to be staying safe; the ER was downright quiet.

After talking to the doctor in charge of the ER that day, who continued the chain of weekend interruptus by calling the director of the ER at home. The director felt the need to pass on his pain by calling the hospital administrator, who appreciated being dragged away from a family barbecue, and cheerfully gave the okay for the warrant to be honored. In the interim, Evan enjoyed drinking several cups of horrific coffee while he read two magazines for diabetes patients.

Once Evan had the records in hand, he shed himself of the hospital atmosphere and went back to his boat, where he found Plutes sitting on the sun deck, surrounded by crumbs. He’d gnawed through the plastic wrap on one blueberry muffin, and apparently napped on the other. The newspaper was unmolested.

Evan threw the cat into a crab pot and dumped him over the side. After enjoying that satisfying fantasy, Evan made himself a real cup of coffee and sat down in the galley dinette to look over the records that he’d fought for so valiantly.

Marlene Hutchins had been to the Sacred Heart ER three times in the seven years that Sacred Heart had been in existence. In October of 2011, she’d been treated for a sprained wrist that she said she got by tripping over the dog and trying to break her fall. In May of 2014, she’d gone to the ER with a broken nose from slipping in the shower. The last visit was in January 2015; the dislocated shoulder.

Her husband had brought her in all three times, and none of the doctors had seemed inclined to check for, or at least note, any other signs of injury, or any suspicions of abuse.

Evan was a cop, and he’d only been to the ER once in the last seven years. That was when Hannah had been taken to the hospital in Cape Canaveral. There was every possibility that Marlene was an accident-prone woman, but Evan’s gut told him that wasn’t the case.

He went up to the sun deck for a cigarette and a think. The abuse rang true, but the idea that Marlene had something to do with her husband’s death felt wrong.

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