Hatchet Hollow by Amanda McKinney

Author:Amanda McKinney [McKinney, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-24T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

AS SHE REACHED the peak of Black Bear Mountain, spears of sunlight shot out from the heavy cloud cover above. Dusk was on the horizon, and if the weatherman was correct, more rain was on the way, which would do nothing to help her foul mood and exhaustion, after another long-ass day at work.

After leaving Abby’s apartment, she’d met Dixie at the office to work on all of the other pressing cases they had going on. She hadn’t heard anything new regarding the Collier case, nor had she heard from Zander. Not that she expected to—although she’d embarrassingly fantasized about it all day. Despite her hope that maybe, just maybe, there was something sparking between them, she reminded herself that Zander had come to her house to return her pocket knife, and that was it. There was nothing else to it.

Nothing else.

But Zander hadn’t dominated all of her thoughts all day. As much as she’d tried to focus, she couldn’t get Abby Collier, or the weird meeting with Claire Banks out of her head. Was there some sort of connection there? Was it possible Claire knew something? And based on what she’d seen on Claire’s computer screen on the way out… was it possible that Claire was involved?

And then there was Abby’s apartment, and the fact that she had been studying witchcraft. Did that somehow tie into her murder?

She had that nagging feeling that she was missing something, something that was right under her nose. And that feeling drove her absolutely crazy.

She parked between two pine trees, got out, and walked across the small gravel parking lot. One positive to the day was that the temperature had climbed to the mid-sixties, which apparently was patio weather according to the ladies of Black Rose. She pushed through the doors of the Black Crow Tavern and inhaled the sweet scent of beer and cedar.

“Hey, Raven girl.” Chuck, a proud police veteran, owner of the bar, and Zander Stone’s grandfather, smiled and wiped his hands on his apron.

She smiled. “Hey, Chuck. Good to see you. Scar and Harley here?”

He nodded toward the back. “Since four o’clock. Fiona, too. Out on the patio. I pulled a heater out for them. They’ve got a pitcher. Want a glass?”

“Yes, please.”

He reached into the cooler and handed her an ice-cold pint glass.

“Thanks.”

She walked through the small, dark bar—which was officially her favorite place in Devil’s Den. It was a typical small-town, country bar where everyone knew everyone’s name. The renovated log cabin sat on top of the tallest mountain in Devil’s Den, Black Bear Mountain, and had a hell of a view of the Great Shadow Mountains. With its dark wood floors, massive log beams, and old street signs, the bar fit right in with the nature that surrounded it.

The bar was also a favorite gathering place of the local police department, and Raven felt a twinge of disappointment when she hadn’t seen Zander’s jacked-up truck in the parking lot.

She pushed through the back door.

“Hey, Rave!” Harley Quinn, Scar’s assistant, rose her pint glass in the air.

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