Tell No Lies (The Faith McClellan Series Book 6) by LynDee Walker

Author:LynDee Walker [Walker, LynDee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn River Publishing
Published: 2023-07-24T23:00:00+00:00

I examined every variable I could remember about the case in the four-hour drive back north. Timmy, Doris, the ledgers, the bones, Ratcliff’s bodies, Ratcliff’s disappearance, Jenny the terrified hotel maid, Timmy’s last outing, the crazy cowboys Doris had kicked out of the motel meeting up with Timmy, Lucia, and last but most considered: Carlos, the ghostly, menacing local small-time crime kingpin.

I told Siri to call Archie.

Voicemail.

“Hey, Arch, it’s Faith. I need your contact at the ATF, because if you trust an ATF guy, he has to be a straight arrow. I also need a US marshal at E Company HQ for witness security as fast as one can get there. I know you’re busy, but please call me when you get a minute.”

I put the phone back into the cupholder.

Tomorrow, when Jenny was safe with the Marshals Service and I knew what Jim wanted, Dean and I would go out to the state park and pay Carlos a visit. For the first time in days, what I’d heard about him made some of this start to make sense as the miles passed—from the beginning, I’d figured Ratcliff’s string of brutally murdered corpses was related to some sort of syndicated crime. Carlos could be the lynchpin that linked the bodies to the local drug trade—or maybe a larger smuggling operation, and to hear Jenny tell it, he even camped upriver from where the corpses were found. Timmy Dushane was in custody on drug-running charges, which could have been a setup orchestrated by Carlos for all I knew—especially since Timmy wasn’t dead. That had puzzled me since I’d found Timmy, because he seemed too low-level from what we’d seen to be worth protecting. But that wasn’t the case if his mother was laundering money for Carlos—or someone higher up than Carlos, even.

The more I thought about it, the more convinced I became that I needed to meet Carlos myself. And lock him up myself, too.

I turned the radio on, Reba’s voice twanging on about the night the lights went out in Georgia. Jenny had the same twang in her voice, but Reba was from Oklahoma, not Texas.

He’ll kill you, too. I still couldn’t shake those words out of my head.

It took me nearly seventy more miles of songs to figure out why, and I nearly ran the truck off the road when I cracked it:

They, not hey. Will, not wheel. Kill, not deal.

Timmy Dushane had been trying to tell me something. But not about his mother or his car…about his girlfriend. And me.

“They will kill her. You too. You…you too.”

Once the words clicked into place, they wouldn’t budge. I could hear him saying them—and I knew in my bones this was right.

I grabbed my phone and told Siri to call Dean. “Get Timmy the hell out of the detention center, even if you have to take Jenny and the kid with you and carry him out yourself,” I said when he picked up. “He was trying to give me a warning the other day, and I’m afraid I put his life in danger by showing up there looking for him.

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