Deadline (Sandra Brown) by Sandra Brown

Author:Sandra Brown [Brown, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9781455501526
Google: DlH4nQLXzCMC
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2013-09-23T14:00:00+00:00

Deputies were dispatched to patrol the beach and surrounding area on foot.

Tucker and Wills, the FBI agents, Amelia, Headly, and Dawson gathered in Amelia’s living room. To bring everyone up to speed, Headly summarized Carl and Flora’s criminal career and disclosed Jeremy’s relationship to them. He shared the theory that Jeremy had killed Stef, mistaking her for Amelia.

He explained to Tucker why they’d been interested in seeing Dirk Arneson. “We thought perhaps Jeremy had assumed another identity and was using the girl to get information on Amelia and his sons.”

“Instead of doing that song and dance, why didn’t you just tell me?”

Headly threw him a bone. “In hindsight, I probably should have.” Tucker looked mollified.

Cecil Knutz was as agreeable a guy as Headly had described him. He was a few years younger than Headly, but wore the aging process more visibly. He was paunchy and balding, but savvy and senior enough to be the RANC.

Dawson admired his gentle and respectful attitude toward Amelia as he questioned her. She gave him an overview of her marriage and divorce, but, unfortunately, had nothing new or enlightening to tell him.

“To me, Jeremy died more than a year ago. If he’s alive, I have no idea where he’s been or where he is. Although, lately, I’ve felt a presence, like someone was watching me. I blamed my uneasiness on Willard Strong’s trial and having to talk openly about things I’d rather forget.”

She told the group about the beach ball mystery and about a set of photographs of her and the children that had disappeared without explanation. “A friend delivered them when no one was at home, but they weren’t where they’d been left.” Dawson appreciated that she didn’t cite him as the “friend.”

She also told them about a boat she’d noticed. “It remained anchored offshore for several days. Other than that, nothing’s been out of the ordinary.” But as she said that, she’d glanced at Dawson.

The team debated whether she and her sons should be moved into a safe house until Jeremy was captured. Headly nixed the idea. “At this point, he thinks he’s in the clear. If she’s placed in protective custody, we’d just as well go on loudspeakers throughout the Deep South and tell Jeremy that we’re on to him.”

Tucker said, “All this is assuming he is alive. That hasn’t been firmly established.”

“What do you need to firmly establish it?” Dawson demanded.

“Something more than a latent fingerprint lifted from a wet raincoat. It could have been there for years.”

“Unlikely,” one of the FBI agents said. “On a nonporous surface like that? Most likely it would have been wiped off or badly smudged by now.”

“It hasn’t been digitally enhanced yet,” Tucker argued. “I’m not going to accept with one-hundred-percent certainty that Wesson is alive until—”

“He whacks Amelia like he did her nanny?” Dawson said.

“Why are you so eager for me to buy into this? So I won’t arrest you?”

Deputy Wills stepped in. “Considering all the unexplained things that have happened to Ms. Nolan

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