Jo Gunning Thriller 02-Gunning for Truth by Pawlish Renée

Author:Pawlish, Renée [Pawlish, Renée]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, American Suspense, Police Procedural, Crime Thriller, Criminal Investigation
Publisher: Creative Cat Press
Published: 2022-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY

G rady was sitting in the parking lot of an abandoned building, one of a few where he liked to go, where he could see Main Street but be away from people’s prying eyes. He’d spent some of the previous evening and this morning driving around, searching for Jo Gunning. He’d never seen her, but he had seen Shirley Flynn’s Nissan at Dean Blackwood’s house. Grady had called his brother after that, told him to get rid of Blackwood. He shouldn’t be talking to the woman.

This morning, Grady had stopped at the restaurant and talked to Shirley himself, but she’d kept her mouth shut, acted as if everything was okay. Everyone else in town was acting as if all was fine, too.

He knew people didn’t like him, didn’t trust him. He touched the gold badge on his shirt. That spoke for a lot. He thought about how he’d gotten here. All he’d ever heard from his parents was how he wasn’t smart enough for college, how that expense would be a waste of money. Their lack of faith in his abilities hit him hard, and he didn’t bother submitting applications to any universities. What was the point?

But there wasn’t a hell of a lot to do in a small town like this. He’d flitted around, gotten himself in a bit of trouble, and then his daddy had told him he better join the Army or else. So Grady did that. He hated the Army almost as much as he hated his daddy, but the military had straightened him out. At least to an extent.

He watched a couple of teenagers walk out of an alley. They saw him, waved, then sauntered on as if they were doing nothing. But he knew better. They were selling drugs. Hopefully the good stuff, not the crap laced with fentanyl. That was posing a bigger and bigger problem, drawing more attention from outside. But the damn kids. You couldn’t stop them from trying things. They were attracted to drugs like bugs to a zapper. And if they weren’t careful, they’d be zapped, too.

His mind wandered back to the Army. He hadn’t much liked the traveling like some of his pals. Grady had missed home, so when he finished his four years, he came back to Greensville. He still hadn’t been sure what he wanted to do, and that was when Rance Pollack approached him, told him he ought to consider working with the sheriff’s department. Rance assured him he was smart enough to handle the job, and Grady applied for the position and got it. He was surprised, but in a small town, how many other people would’ve applied? He enjoyed the work at first, enjoyed how people looked at him differently. With respect. He’d never had that before.

He gnawed his lip. That had changed when Rance approached him again, for favors. First, it had been to ignore when Addison was drunk driving at thirteen. She’d plowed into a tree, and was lucky neither she nor anyone else had been injured.

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