Once You Go This Far by Kristen Lepionka

Author:Kristen Lepionka [Lepionka, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780571351282
Google: cMe9DwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B0818PHF1X
Goodreads: 52992516
Publisher: Faber Faber
Published: 2020-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

I called Maggie but she didn’t answer. In light of what Roger Allen Wade had told me about church members’ communications being monitored, I thought twice this time about leaving a detailed message, instead just saying, “Hi Maggie, it’s Roxane, I’m calling to check on you and Bea. Give me a call when you have a minute.”

I hung up wondering if she would listen to that and think I had lost my mind. If Roger’s claim of church-owned cell phones wasn’t true, she probably would. Maybe she would either way. Maybe I had. I wasn’t able to see where all of this was going yet, but there were too many questions to assume that there was nothing here to see.

Back in my motel room, I tried to find an address for Life Begins and was only able to turn up a post office box. But their events page told me they would be performing outreach on the University of Toledo campus that afternoon, in front of the Lancelot Thompson Student Union. I remembered appearances of such groups on the Oval when I was in college at Ohio State—specifically, I recalled the use of a bullhorn and counterprotesters from the women’s studies program. Shouting had probably never changed a single mind, but that only seemed to make the true believers shout even louder.

While I waited for the afternoon and a chance to find out if Aiden might be involved with the group, I tried to find out more about Nadine Brant Creedle. Yesterday, Danette had suggested that maybe she went to stay with family somewhere, but it seemed that her social network was scant—she had a sister in Indiana who told me over the phone that she hadn’t spoken to her in six months, a few cousins who didn’t answer my calls, and a father in a memory care facility in West Virginia. Then I reconsidered her deceased first husband’s family, thinking maybe she would turn there. The obituary I’d read listed a slew of relatives, including a sister and two brothers. I made a few phone calls and left messages and then, newly reminded that obits were gold mines for familial data, I looked one up for Cynthia Weary Shafer, my father’s sister.

… survived by her children: Caroline Horton and her husband, Bill, of Pittsburgh; Albert Shafer of Erie; and Josephine Shafer of Cleveland, Ohio. She is also survived by a brother, Francis Weary of Columbus, Ohio; two grandsons, Caleb and Louis; and several nieces and nephews.

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