Girl Without A Prayer by Rylie Dark

Author:Rylie Dark [Dark, Rylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rylie Dark
Published: 2023-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Tara turned to Glenn. He was sitting at his desk pretending not to listen, but she tapped lightly on the wood in front of herself, and he looked up.

“Did you hear that?” she asked.

“What? Your sister being incredibly sweet and kind and trying to help you with this impossible and infuriating case?” Glenn asked. He pretended to think for a second. “No, I wasn’t listening.”

Tara laughed at him. “What she said made me think. We’re good at this. And in all our experience, it feels like the most obvious answer, the one we see most clearly, is usually the right one.”

Glenn hummed lightly at the back of his throat. “I don’t know. We’ve had cases where the most obvious answer cost us a ton of time and didn’t get us any closer to the truth.”

“Okay, that’s fair,” Tara nodded. “But what I mean is, we haven’t even really explored the most obvious answer yet with this case.”

“What is the most obvious answer?” Glenn asked with a frown.

“That’s my point,” Tara said, clicking her fingers. “We have no idea. But we’ve been looking for another connection between the two victims all night and haven’t found anything. That must mean that the most obvious connection is the only one – the fact that they both live on the development. Placid Lake is the answer.”

“Okay,” Glenn frowned. “But how do we translate that into a lead?”

“We need to figure out who would have a reason to hold a grudge against the development itself,” Tara said thoughtfully. “Not just the general way people feel about it round here – I mean someone who really, really hates it. Someone who’s angry enough to kill, or hurt enough, or has enough of a point to prove. Is there anyone who led protests against the development before it was built?”

“Uh,” Glenn scratched his head, then started clicking around on his screen, searching through records. “I guess you were working here back then. It was, like, seven years ago, right? I only came here six years ago.”

Tara nodded. “That’s right,” she said. “I was working here, but I was still a deputy, and I wasn’t involved in any of that stuff. I was mostly holding down the fort.”

Glenn grinned at her. “You were the Deputy Bryant back then?”

“I was the Deputy Bryant,” she said with a laugh.

“Hey!” Deputy Bryant called over with a sulky look. “I do really important things around here. Sheriff Braddock said so.”

“Super important, yes,” Tara said, holding a smile. “Someone has to answer the phones, keep the coffees coming, and stay here in case anyone shows up when we're all out on calls. You're right. It's essential to keep us running."

Bryant nodded with injured pride and satisfaction, turning back to his monitor and adjusting his headset.

“Hold on,” Tara said to Glenn, an aside before she shouted across the room. “Hey, Collins!”

Deputy Collins, one of the older members of their team, looked up to see who was calling him and then lumbered across to them.

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