Deadfall by Sue Henry

Author:Sue Henry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780613292238
Publisher: San Val
Published: 1998-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Okay, sit up, but keep your hands where I can see them, and don’t do anything stupid. I know how to use this, and I will—in a heartbeat.”

He used a branch of the bush to pull himself to a sitting position, kept his hands on his thighs, and looked up at her silhouette behind the light, sighing this time with relief. He didn’t look dangerous, but rather disturbed and leery of the gun she held steadily pointed at him.

“That’s better, thanks. Now…I have a little place up at the end of Jakolof, built it myself back in the woods, before so many people moved over there. But a couple of times a year I go across the bay to Homer for supplies. Then, if nobody’s here, I usually stop for a day or two on my way back. I don’t hurt anything—just use the sauna and play the piano. Millie knows me. She knows I come over—leaves a key to the sauna where I can find it. Sometimes, when she’s here by herself, I stop in to see her.”

“Describe her.”

“Nice lady—medium build, brown hair turning white, good smile. Comes down mostly in the late spring or summer for a week or two at a time. She likes gin and tonic—or, once in a while, a martini. Fell on the beach rocks getting out of a boat a couple of years ago and broke her arm.”

It was Millie, all right. He knew her, and Jessie thought it unlikely her stalker would. Still, she was not absolutely sure. She paused to think for a minute, half soaked with rain dripping off her hair and down the neck of the slicker. She could smell the salty, iodine odor of the sea on wind that blew water from the nearby trees into her face. She was tired, wet, and the hand with the splinter was pulsing with a sharp, annoying pain. She needed to ask another question or two, however.

“So, Rudy, it was you in the sauna, night before last?”

“Yes, I used it. How’d you know?”

“You forgot to lock it and the stove was still wa—Never mind. How long have you lived there—in Jakolof?”

“Oh, must be almost thirty years now.” He half smiled, remembering. “Let’s see…I came in ’69, and…”

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