The Emily Kincaid Mysteries Boxed Set by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli

Author:Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mysteries & Thrillers
Publisher: Beyond the Page
Published: 2017-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-two

“Okay, so here’s the deal.” Dolly sat on a bench at the Trout City Grill making notes in her small notebook. Let’s go see these Robbins families.”

Trout City in Kalkaska had good food, especially their Cobb salad, which I might be dreaming of one day, when I could no longer afford lunches out.

The restaurant was crowded but we got a booth at the back in five minutes. I ordered my salad and Dolly went for the fried chicken. She dug her notebook out again and laid it on the table.

She frowned over her notes. “Then we’ll head out to Elk Rapids. That Tanya Lincoln, sister of the missing girl from Mancelona. She’s out there.”

I nodded and dug into my salad as soon as it got there. If Dolly got it into her head we’d better hurry there would be no time to finish my food. She could bolt down a plateful of anything in no time at all.

“Then we’ll make a stop in Traverse City. See this Fern Valient. Then out to Peshawbestown and Lena Smith. That’s going to be the hard one. We’ll have to go door to door.”

“Or to the casino. Somebody there might know her.”

Dolly nodded and bit into a piece of chicken as a man in his mid-thirties with shoulder-length brown hair, dirty jeans, and a clean checkered sport shirt walked over and stood beside our table.

“Heard you was looking into that bone thing, from out to Sandy Lake,” he said, smiling and nodding at me then turning his attention to Dolly.

She leaned back and frowned up at him. “Billy Kramer?”

He nodded.

“When you get out?”

“Long time ago. I was a kid, Dolly. I’m married now. Me and Cassandra got us a little boy.”

She smiled. “I’m really happy to hear that. I never thought you was bad.”

“Thanks,” he said and lowered his head shyly.

“Why are you asking about Sandy Lake? Just curious?”

He shook his head and looked at people in the other booths. “Heard it might be Chet, your husband.”

Dolly nodded, scrunched up her face, and waited.

Billy leaned close to Dolly’s ear and told her something I couldn’t hear. She looked up and demanded, “You sure?”

Billy nodded, waited a minute, then walked back to a table near the far wall, where a young girl sat holding a baby dressed in a blue onesie and kicking his feet and making happy noises. She looked over at us and nodded her head.

“What’d he say?” I asked.

“Said he’d seen Chet with a woman once. He said it was an Indian girl and he knew she had a brother because he knew the brother. Maybe another girl in the family, too. Said they lived somewhere around Leetsville back awhile. The brother’s name is Alfred. Had a little run-in with Alfred when Billy was about twenty. Didn’t know the last name but he heard the brother works at one of the casinos; maybe is high up in the business end of things.”

“Should have asked for a description.”

She shrugged. “What good is that going to do? Billy’s got to be thirty-six now.

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