Toxin Alert by Tyler Anne Snell

Author:Tyler Anne Snell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-09-04T16:02:55+00:00

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RIHANNA DIDN’T NOTICE the camera in her room, but she did notice that her laptop had been moved right before she went to bed.

Before that, when she’d come back from the hospital after she’d spoken to hospital staff, deputies and then the sheriff of the county himself, she’d used her work laptop to go through some of the files Alana had sent her. Most were social media accounts to look into for a possible connection between Rodney Lee and David Lapp.

She’d gone through incident reports and community news looking for anything that stood out as suspicious or different enough to garner a closer examination.

By the time Carly and Noah had gotten their undercover idea approved—though including Noah had gotten considerable pushback at first—Rihanna had saved only three pieces of information that had struck her as odd compared to the rest.

The first was an incident report from the year before. An unidentified male, mid-twenties, light-skinned and dark-haired, had been seen spray painting a marijuana leaf on the side of an abandoned barn on land formally owned by the Kellogg family. He hadn’t been caught and no more graffiti had shown up in the town.

The second was a social media post on the county’s Facebook page. It was a call to arms for any tips or information on a teenager or young woman, no one seemed to be able to pinpoint her age, who had been seen as suspicious, hanging around Potter’s Creek and then running before anyone could ask why.

As far as Rihanna could tell through the comments and following news story and investigation, the woman hadn’t been identified, either.

The third tidbit of information that she found was the piece she really started to get excited about. It was a Facebook comment thread on a story about local business growth and tourism in which someone talked about a local real estate developer who wanted to open up a dude ranch in the middle of Amish country. Half of the people who commented had been vehemently against it—there were enough farms in town to begin with and The Grand Casino in the city was as close as they wanted to be to more tourism—while the other commenters had been supportive but realistic.

One woman had said that, while she might have liked the idea of getting more outsiders into town to shop at her local boutique, there was no way that the Amish families would sell out to an Englisher.

Rihanna might be a liaison, but she’d been an agent first. Her knack for keeping the peace in her current job hadn’t softened the edges of knowing a good lead when she heard it. Or, in this case, read it.

She’d emailed the screenshot of the conversation to her phone and hurried downstairs to the kitchen. The owner of the bed-and-breakfast, Dot, a lover of gossip but professional as far as Rihanna could tell, was getting ready to go to her house behind the inn for the night and looked elated that she’d been interrupted.

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