Gone in a Flash by Susan Rogers Cooper

Author:Susan Rogers Cooper [Cooper, Susan Rogers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9780727882929
Google: ijwbmwEACAAJ
Amazon: B00FFYW7JS
Barnesnoble: B00FFYW7JS
Goodreads: 17707241
Publisher: Severn House Digital
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

SEVEN

THURSDAY

‘We need to get Alicia home,’ Willis said as we stared at the body.

‘No, she can’t go home,’ Luna said. She got on her cell phone and made a call. She told the person on the other end to send out a crime-scene tech and a squad car to take us back to the station. ‘Alicia needs to be debriefed. I’m sending y’all to BCR police station to talk with Chief Donaldson. He’s expecting you.’ She looked at Bert Smith sitting in the back seat of the car. ‘Mr Smith, do you need to go to the hospital first?’

None of us quite understood why Alicia and Bert both were shaking their heads. ‘Call me, Bert, ma’am. I don’t think I’m gonna let anybody call me Mr Smith again. And no, ma’am, I don’t need no doctor.’

Luna nodded her head. ‘OK, I’ll call you Bert if you don’t “ma’am” me again, deal?’

‘Yes, ma’am,’ he said, then grinned at her.

‘Everybody in the car,’ Luna said. ‘There are plenty of seatbelts back there. I’m going to drive you to the point where the dirt road meets the farm to market. We’ll wait for the squad car there. No need to sit here staring at the dead guy.’

Willis was on his cell phone before Luna got the car started. ‘Meet us at the BCR police station,’ he said to his son and hung up.

I had Alicia in my arms in the back seat, stroking her hair. ‘I was so worried,’ I said.

‘I know, Mom.’

Willis turned around in his seat. ‘We both were,’ he said.

Alicia reached out for his outstretched hand. ‘I know you were, Dad. I know that.’

He squeezed her hand and I could see a tear in his eye. ‘Never forget it,’ he said. ‘Ever.’

‘Never ever,’ Alicia said and squeezed back.

We waited for less than fifteen minutes and heard the squad car coming miles off, sirens blazing away.

Once the patrol person got there, Luna said, ‘No siren going back. Speed limit, got that, Rookie?’

‘Yes, ma’am,’ the fresh-faced former boy scout said.

It took about twenty minutes to get back to BCR and to the police station. Like everything else in Black Cat Ridge, the police station had been part of The Plan. Although it took a couple of years to get it built and running, the urgent care area had been set out in the original town plans. Several acres earmarked for police, fire, and ambulance. It was all up and running now and close to the White Rock shopping center so, ta-da, it was all made of white rock, fitting the locale beautifully, with as few trees slaughtered as possible.

Inside, the waiting area had comfortable seating, good lighting, and piped-in music. There was reading material – Ladies Home Journal, Time, and Men’s Health. It was more like an upscale doctor’s office than a police station. There was even a little sliding glass window, behind which sat what in a doctor’s office would have been the receptionist, but instead of scrubs, this young woman was wearing the black and gold uniform of the Black Cat Ridge Police.

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