all the lies by Peggy Webb

Author:Peggy Webb [Webb, Peggy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Westmoreland House
Published: 2018-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Griff desperately needed a drink. If he weren’t staked out waiting for Ikard, he’d be home grabbing a cold beer from his refrigerator and watching football or an old John Wayne movie. Or he might be out at the barn saddling up Trigger for an evening run.

Hell, yeah, he’d named his favorite horse after Roy Rogers’ famous mount. He loved the old cowboy movies, loved the idea that he was keeping the King of the Cowboys alive. Roy Rogers represented a simpler time when the good guys wore white hats and the bad wore black.

He wished it were that simple now. Since Sylvia’s murder, everybody in his town seemed to be swapping hats at an alarming rate. Turns out, nobody was who they pretended to be.

Least of all, Griff.

His jaw tightened.

To make matters worse, there was the third member of that bunch Holt referred to as the girls’ night out group. Ana Perez, walking into the Wine and Cheese House down the street. First Dana Perkins, who’d had her nose all up in his business after he’d arrested that kid Vinn Bradshaw for murder. And then that once-famous reporter, Julia Ford. Hell, she’d covered crime in Chicago. Won awards. Been cited on some of the best TV news networks in America.

It wouldn’t take somebody with her credentials long to sniff out Griff’s treachery.

Thank God the FBI was not with Ford.

But what was she doing a block away from his stakeout? Conducting a little stakeout of her own? Keeping tabs on him? Waiting for him to fumble this investigation so she could tell everybody in Shutter Lake that Griff McCabe was the last person on earth you’d want as Chief of Police.

For all he knew, Ford was already sharing the news with Perez and Perkins. The next thing he knew, she’d be telling Holt.

He glanced at his perfectly composed deputy. Under the street lights she looked like any ordinary beautiful woman. Until you saw her in action, you’d never guess how tough she was. Nor how compassionate. Laney Holt was the only person in Shutter Lake who knew the scope of his drinking problem, covered for him and still acted as if she respected him.

Anybody else in this town who happened to catch McCabe on those rare occasions when he couldn’t hold his liquor assumed he was still hurting because his wife left him. Hell, he’d been over Janine so many years before she trotted out the door to enjoy big city life over in San Francisco, he’d helped her pack her bag.

Suddenly Holt turned to stare at him. “What’s eating you, McCabe?”

“Nothing.”

“That’s a whole lot of fidgeting for nothing.”

“I don’t fidget.”

“Well, whatever you call it, keep it down, will you? I’m trying to concentrate over here.” Holt glanced up at Ikard’s still-dark apartment over The Grind.

“What are you concentrating on? Ikard’s nowhere in sight.”

“If he’s not back soon, I’m trying to think how I might break and enter his apartment without getting caught.”

“Hell, Holt. You’re sitting in the car with the law.

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