The Edge of the Shadows by George Elizabeth

Author:George, Elizabeth [George, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Retail, YA 12+
ISBN: 9780698169197
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-ONE

Seth heard about the change in the Maxwelton fire investigation from a fellow carpenter on the job site north of Freeland. The guy was one of the island’s volunteer fire fighters and also a neighbor and friend of Karl Levitt. He’d been there to help douse the fishing shack fire, so the fire chief had passed the word to him. It wasn’t a secret anyway. The last issue of the South Whidbey Record had been all over the developing story.

Seth decided to drive up to Coupeville after work to have a talk with the undersheriff. For in combination with the warnings he’d heard from the bass player in BC Django 21, Seth had realized that Parker Natalia had been on the island since before the very first fire. While Seth told himself he hated to be a snitch, he also told himself that the cops needed to know that along with his presence at the Maxwelton Beach party, Parker had been camping in his car at the fairgrounds when the fire occurred there. The sheriff would want to check him out.

Of course, Seth also knew there was another reason for his trekking up to Coupeville to talk to the sheriff, and that reason was Hayley. He had to protect her, he told himself.

So Seth went to Coupeville, ten miles north of the building site. The undersheriff was in, as it happened. Seth had been hoping that maybe Dave Mathieson wouldn’t be there, and he’d’ve been able just to leave a message along the lines of “Check out a dude called Parker Natalia from Nelson, B.C., because he’s been on the island since the fires started.” But when he stopped at the reception desk and asked for the undersheriff, he was told to “wait over there, please,” and he took himself to a bench and picked up a magazine on golfing, which he pretended to read.

Ten minutes after he got there, Dave Mathieson came out. He said Seth’s name and he extended his hand. There had been bad blood between them when Derric had been hurt in the woods the previous year, but that seemed to be forgotten now.

“Good to see you,” Dave said to him. “Come on back.”

He seemed to know that Seth was there on business, so that made things a little easier. He took Seth through to where the offices were, which was mercifully not where the interview rooms and the holding cells were. Seth had seen those already, up close and way too personal.

Inside his office, Dave indicated a chair for Seth and took the one behind the desk for himself. He leaned back, yawned, said, “Damn long day,” and then added, “What’s up?”

“I heard about the fire,” Seth told him. “The guy that died inside the shack? I work with one of the volunteers, and he told me about it.”

Dave said, “I heard you’re doing construction now. Good for you, Seth.”

Seth thanked him politely. He said that he’d been thinking things over and something had dawned

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