MURDEROUS MORNING: A heart-stopping crime novel with a stunning end. by Bernadette Calonego

Author:Bernadette Calonego [Calonego, Bernadette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calonego Media Inc.
Published: 2020-11-08T16:00:00+00:00

27

The flight back in the floatplane seemed really long to Tessa. When she finally put her feet on the ground at the harbor, she looked at the news on her cell phone.

Ron Halprin had written back: Tell me briefly what this is about.

Frustrated, she threw back her head. She couldn’t possibly put her suspicions in a text message. A man handed her the backpack. She turned around and saw a person at the edge of the parking lot.

“Dad,” she called from far away. “How did you know . . . ?”

They hugged, both relieved and distraught at the same time.

“Savannah saw your text message. I called Kratz and hoped you would be flying back with him today.”

When they approached the Pathfinder, Tessa noticed the two dogs in the back wagging their tails. Her father hadn’t yet given them over to Harrison Miller. As they traveled toward Whatou Lake, she told him about the conversations with Noreen Chelin and Lynn Prett. “Lynn said she thought Fran had gotten out of control,” she closed her report. “Didn’t you notice that yourself?”

Her father sighed. “We hardly saw her anymore.”

But she saw other people, Tessa remembered. I’ve gotta talk with Ron Halprin.

This thought was so important to her that she forgot to tell her father about the car ride with Harrison Miller. And she forgot to ask him where he’d been with the dogs that afternoon when his car was parked in front of the house.

“Can we quickly stop at the police station, Dad?”

Her father nodded.

She regretted her decision right away when she saw a group of reporters and other TV people standing in front of the entrance to the police station. Kenneth Griffins made a quick decision. “I’m going to drive around the corner and wait in a side street.”

She pulled up the hood of her windbreaker, put on her sunglasses, and ran as fast as she could up the stairs, past the journalists. Inside she took off her shades.

“I’m Tessa Griffins, Fran Miller’s sister,” she said to the two officials who were standing behind the counter. “Can I talk to Sergeant Halprin?”

The two men looked her over. A messy-haired woman with dry lips and tired eyes, wearing track pants and a windbreaker.

“Sergeant Halprin isn’t here,” one of the policemen said. “None of them are here.”

“They’re still out at the crime scene?” she asked.

The policeman stayed vague. “Probably. But that’s closed off to everybody. The best thing for you is to send a text to Sergeant Halprin.”

I’ve already done that, she wanted to say, but she bit her tongue. “Is there a back exit?” she asked. “Because of the media people.”

“Sure,” the second policeman said, and led her to it.

The Pathfinder was waiting two doors down. Tessa let herself fall into the passenger seat. “It looks like the sergeant is back at the farm.”

Kenneth Griffins took a shortcut to the highway. “I’m supposed to give these dogs a run, where nobody will see them.”

“There’s a grizzly hanging around in Tennigan Park,” she warned him.

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