Mountain of Evidence by Cindi Myers

Author:Cindi Myers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-09-10T19:05:48+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Grant knew from long experience that cases rarely presented themselves as neatly or smoothly as depicted on television or in the movies. Most solutions came after long, frustrating slogs through piles of data and hundreds of hours of legwork. Many cases were never solved. Accepting this was part of the job, and one he had learned to deal with.

And then a string of seemingly unsolvable cases would come along to strip away all his calm indifference and frustrate him as if he was a rookie fresh from the academy. “We haven’t had any luck tracking down the origin of the drawing we found at the dump site,” Dance reported at the Wednesday morning meeting to review ongoing work. “We checked the rosters of all the preschools and elementary schools around town, but none of them have a Max registered. We showed the drawing around, but no one recognized it.”

“As for the other debris, there’s nothing we’ve found that ties it to any one location.” Beck continued the report. “We think it might even be from several locations.”

“Surveillance, both live and with cameras, hasn’t turned up anything, either,” Dance said.

“Unless you count deer, coyotes and one curious bear,” Beck said.

“We think maybe whoever was using the site is done or got spooked and abandoned it,” Dance concluded. “We’ll continue to check regularly, but right now, we can’t justify the resources, and the public lands people are agitating to get the place cleaned up.”

“All right, but I want us to have someone there when they start hauling away stuff,” Grant said. “Just in case anything turns up.”

Beck made a face. “Let’s hope it’s not a body.”

“Unless it’s Dane Trask’s body,” Hud said. “That would solve a lot of problems.”

“And create more,” Officer Redhorse said.

“Speaking of Trask,” Grant said, anxious to move things along. “After I spoke with Mitch Ruffino, TDC handed over some transcripts of calls to their reward hotline that were, essentially, useless.” He glanced at his notes. “The usual collection of people who thought they might have seen Trask buying gas or in line at the movies, or hitchhiking out by the lake. None of them could give a solid description of the person they saw, and the descriptions they did give didn’t really sound like Trask. One woman said she had seen Trask in a dream, at the bottom of the lake, playing poker with a redheaded woman and a man in a black hoodie.”

Laughter traveled around the table. Grant waited for it to subside. “I have a feeling if they got anything less off the wall, TDC is keeping it to themselves. The vice president, Mitch Ruffino, made it clear he didn’t want us poking into the company’s business.”

“I’ve always felt like they wanted to get to Trask before we did,” Beck said.

“Because Trask has dirt on them they don’t want us to know?” Knightbridge asked.

“That could be why he left in such a hurry to begin with,” Beck said.

“But then why stick around?” Grant asked. “And

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.