On a Killer's Trail by Susan Page Davis

Author:Susan Page Davis [Davis, Susan Page]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2009-12-05T20:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

An hour later, Kate drove back to the newspaper office. A cold rain was falling, and she shivered as she ran across the parking lot to the door. But nothing could dampen her excitement as she wrote up the story.

Stephen Burton, son of the man who had embezzled the animal shelter’s building fund money, had confessed to shooting a woman’s cat. It was good copy. The detectives were not yet ready to reveal that the gun Stephen used to wound the cat was also the murder weapon in the two recent homicides, but it would raise all sorts of questions in the readers’ minds. Friday night she’d written up the story saying they’d found the gun used in the murders. If they wanted to continue to keep the link to the cat’s wounding quiet, that was all right with Kate. Of course, other reporters would pester Connor and Neil, wanting more information. But she felt she was one step ahead of her peers, and with God’s blessing.

When she left work at five o’clock, the temperature had dropped below freezing and the streets were slippery. She drove slowly to Gray Goose Lane in the early darkness, giving herself extra room to stop at each traffic light.

Adrienne had meat loaf, baked potatoes and green beans waiting. As they ate in the kitchen, the drumming of rain on the roof of the breezeway changed to pattering sleet.

“I’m glad you’re staying with us now, Kate,” Adrienne said. “I know you’re home safe.”

After supper, Kate went to look out the living room window. The street was a sheet of ice. Power lines glittered like Christmas garlands, and tree limbs were bowed down everywhere in shimmering arches.

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