Organized for S'more Death by Ritter Ames

Author:Ritter Ames
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ritter Ames
Published: 2018-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

NAVIGATION IS IMPORTANT

Never hike in an area you don’t know without carrying a map and compass. Adding a GPS unit is an added bonus. You can’t always count on your cell phone app, as many trails make it virtually impossible to get a cell phone signal if you’re very far from a town or ranger station.

WHILE KATE SPOKE TO the emergency operator and tried to give the location to the site, she watched as Meg pulled out Paul’s cell phone and attempted to access it.

“Of course he locked the darned thing.” She tossed it onto the dashboard.

“Were you trying to call Gil?” Kate whispered, holding a hand over her phone’s mic.

Meg shook her head. “I’ll wait and call him after the police arrive. If I call him now, he’ll be here in a flash, then he’ll have to be interviewed too. This way it will just be the two of us. Again.”

“We’re getting to be pros at the procedure,” Kate said with a sigh. “But I can guarantee both husbands are going to be angry at us for not calling them. They’ll be worried after the fact.”

“I guess the murderer could still be around,” Meg said, looking through the windshield and into the gathering dusk. “It’s going to be dark soon.”

“The blood was dry already on Paul’s forehead,” Kate said. “And none of the mess on the wall behind him was running down in tracks anymore either. The murderer would have to be nuts to still be around here, and if it’s a mob hit the killer will be long gone.”

“And if it’s not a mob hit?”

“The killer planned this out too carefully to be caught at the murder site an hour or more afterward,” Kate replied. “But why didn’t we hear the shot. We were so close. We should have heard something.”

Meg shrugged. “Must have used a silencer of some kind.”

The emergency operator came back online and told Kate the officer was in the area and en route. A minute later they heard the wail of a siren, and after another minute the bizarre circus effect of the patrol car’s lights hitting all the trees announced the arrival of the police. A second patrol car followed close behind.

Kate informed the operator that the police had arrived, thanked her for the help, and ended the call. “I’ll call Keith.”

“No, there’s no point in you getting into trouble. I’ll call Gil and tell him where we are.”

Two uniformed constables approached the car, and Kate whispered, “I’ll show them the body so you can finish your call in here and they won’t hear Gil yelling over the phone.” Then she stepped out of the passenger side of the door and greeted the men.

“My friend is letting our husband’s know where we are, and that you’re here with us, so they won’t worry,” Kate said, after introducing herself and explaining who Meg was. The two officers followed when she added, “The...body...is this way. I’ll show you.”

They didn’t let her reenter the trailer.

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