Paskagankee by Allan Leverone

Author:Allan Leverone
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Horror, ebook, Bestseller, Suspense, Thriller
Publisher: StoneGate Ink
Published: 2012-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

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EIGHT A.M. FOUND MIKE and Sharon back at the Paskagankee Police Station, Sharon for her regular patrol shift and Mike for a meeting with Mutt and Jeff from the State Police Task Force. As much as he would have preferred riding in a cruiser with Shari, the two men investigating the brutal crimes on behalf of the attorney general had agreed to give him a briefing on their progress and he had no intention of missing it. Paskagankee was his town now, and Mike was determined to be as involved in the murder investigations as possible, even if it meant having to listen to the two smug assholes who had pulled the rug out from under his feet and taken over his investigation.

He thought back to last night and what Professor Dye had said, sitting around Sharon Dupont’s kitchen table. The man’s tale was a wild one, there was no doubt about that, but Dye had told it calmly and rationally. He exhibited no signs of delusion and as much as Mike wanted to dismiss him as some sort of wild-eyed crackpot, he found himself giving more and more credence to Dye’s bizarre theory.

What choice did he have, really? There was no alternative that Mike could conjure up that came close to fitting the meager evidence they had collected, and he was willing to bet that the two idiots the attorney general sent up here didn’t have anything more to hang their hats on, either.

He wondered, though, exactly how the professor intended to rid the town of the ancient Native American spirit if, in fact, his theory was correct. Was it really possible the solution was so complicated he couldn’t explain it to them? How the hell did the man expect to gain Mike’s cooperation if he wouldn’t share his plan?

He sighed. Maybe Professor Dye had just been too tired after his long day to get into it with them last night. Mike made a mental note to press Dye hard on the issue before Warren Sprague’s damn bonfire tonight. That foolish and risky testament to Yankee stubbornness was still on schedule to kick off at seven o’clock in the evening, and the thought of the potential danger it represented gave Mike an uneasy feeling in the pit of his stomach. The bonfire may be tradition, bit it was happening at the absolute wrong time, and he was powerless to stop it.

After Sharon invited the professor to sleep at her house last night, the exhausted man had gratefully agreed. He seemed to have no desire to go back out in the pitch-dark, freezing cold night and drive to the Maple Leaf Motel in the wee hours of the morning. Mike couldn’t blame him, he wouldn’t have wanted to either.

Mike had been more than a little concerned about what Professor Dye would think of the chief of police sleeping with one of his officers, but if the professor felt any sense of disapproval, he kept it to himself. He had insisted

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