Deep freeze by Lisa Jackson

Author:Lisa Jackson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Crime & mystery, Fiction
ISBN: 9780340938119
Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2006.
Published: 2010-04-17T23:00:00+00:00

Carter watched her leave. She was scared and he didn't blame her. She disappeared down the stairs and he stood and stretched, walking to the window and staring outside through the frosty panes to the parking lot below. Blazers, an Explorer, a truck, and two Crown Victorias were in the lot along with a few pedestrians, heads bent against the wind as they walked past. Across the street, at Danby's, there was yet another sale, the advertising for this one including Santa painted on the storefront windows.

Small Town, U.S.A., he thought.

Small Town, U.S.A., with one missing woman and another woman found dead. Carter didn't like it. He didn't like it at all.

Lieutenant Sparks had called earlier. The dental records for Mavis Gette were hard to match because of the filed teeth, so now they were waiting for DNA. That would take some time, but Gette's cousin had confirmed that Mavis had once broken her collarbone--the clavicle that they'd found near the body had, according to the Medical Examiner, once been fractured. In Carter's estimation, Jane Doe was Mavis Gette. The FBI agreed, according to Sparks, as he was dealing with the local field agents. So why had her teeth been filed down? Why the alginate in her hair? Was this guy some kind of weird, psychotic dentist? How did a woman who was last heard from in Medford end up at Catwalk Point?

He moved his head around, releasing the tension in the back of his neck and, from his vantage point, saw Jenna Hughes hurry across the parking lot. Her boots slid a bit and she had to catch herself on the fender of one of the Crown Vics.

It was funny how he felt about her. He'd assumed she was a Hollywood princess, pampered, used to the good life. But he'd been wrong. At least here, in Falls Crossing, she wasn't a star--no, far from it. Here she was a single mother who was scared out of her wits. Mentally he considered all the ex-cops he knew who might be willing to come to her aid and hire on as a bodyguard. He rejected them all, and then gave himself a swift mental kick as he realized the reason. An unlikely spurt of envy that sped through his blood.

He didn't like the idea of one of the people he knew looking after her.

However, the thought of her being unprotected was worse.

He couldn't accept the job.

He had more than he could handle as it was.

His gaze followed her as she slid behind the wheel of her Jeep and eased out of the lot. The pathetic dog was sitting in the passenger seat.

"Don't tell me." BJ's voice brought him up cold.

He turned to find her in the doorway, one shoulder braced against the jamb. "What?"

"You know what," she chided. "You and every red-blooded male in this county--no, make that this country--have a hard-on for Jenna Hughes."

He snorted.

"How about that? You don't even deny it." Her smile stretched wide. "I never thought I'd see the day.

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