To Die For by Sharon Green

Author:Sharon Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Mike heard the low, angry muttering going on among the six people behind him, but made no effort to listen or even to turn around. He hadn’t yet asked them to identify themselves, but that was only because he’d been trying to encourage them to talk. They might believe they would walk out of here still as anonymous as they’d been when they’d arrived, but it wasn’t going to happen. Now that he’d narrowed down his suspect list to under ten thousand, he had no intention of being sloppy.

But he still wished he’d had the time to ask Tanda what she and the dog were going to do. He had to know who the person who had left was, and if necessary he would grill these six until one of them broke down. Even with what their backgrounds had to be, they should be rattled enough now to be easier to handle.

Their backgrounds…Mike took a silent but very deep breath, understanding that Tanda didn’t yet realize her brother had truly been one of them. Things were happening too fast and the situation was too personal for her to make the connection, but once she did…Mike decided he’d just have to see to it that he was there when the inevitable happened. No one should have to face something like that alone.

“Okay, we’re back,” Mike heard, and looking up showed him Tanda and her dog coming in. Even in jeans and a T-shirt there was something vital and wonderful about her, even more so than the night before. He could spend hours just standing there and watching her.

“Okay, in here we won’t have a problem, but once we get outside we’ll hopefully need someone in a vehicle to follow us,” she told Mike briskly, all business and confidence. “I don’t know how far the trail will lead, but Sherlock and I have to follow it on foot. Coming back, though, we’ll want to ride.”

“You expect to get somewhere using a bloodhound?” the lawyer-type who’d done all the talking asked with a lot of amusement. “You backwoods types are really too funny. What sort of telltale piece of clothing do you think your imagined quarry left, for a dog to be of use?”

Most of the others joined in his snide laughter, and that made Mike furious. He was about to tell them exactly what he thought of them, but Tanda did it faster—and better.

“And you ignorant city-types never know just how ignorant you are,” she countered with an amused laugh of her own, which banished theirs. “My dog doesn’t need a piece of ‘telltale’ clothing, all he needs is to know that someone was here who isn’t here now. He’s trained to follow the ‘missing’ scent, so to speak, to pick it out from all the other scents in the room and follow it alone.”

“That isn’t possible,” the lawyer-type said flatly, a furious look in his cold, dark eyes. “This is some kind of trick, but I’m telling you now it isn’t going to work.

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