Bone Pendant Girls by Terry S Friedman

Author:Terry S Friedman [Friedman, Terry S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

37

ANDI

“You’re the talk of the department,” Sheriff Hollister said. “First big break in this case comes from a lady in Pennsylvania. Go figure.” Hollister met Andi at the door of the conference room of the Lakeside Police station. The station was a small brick building on Trenholm Road with pink flowering bushes outside, nothing like Franklin Township’s glass-walled, tax-dollars-wasting monstrosity.

Andi scanned the conference room. No different from the morgue lobby: aluminum-frame chairs, cheap pine table, institutional green walls. Eli sat across from the sheriff at an oblong table while Hollister took Andi’s statement about the pendants. Hollister was a German shepherd of a man: sturdy, with black hair and a brown moustache and bushy brown eyebrows that didn’t match his hair. Penetrating brown eyes studied her.

He handed her a business card. “If anything out of the ordinary should happen, call me.”

She exchanged a smile with Eli. Hollister had no idea how often unusual things happened to her. “We did have a visitor last night, some drunk, old guy night fishing. Never actually saw the guy, just heard him,” she said. “Fiona scared him off.”

He tapped a cigarette on the table and made a note on a pad. “I assured Bailey we’ll keep an eye on the lake house. Once you make that call to Peter Rockford to confirm the date and time, you’ll have a twenty-four seven police escort.”

Andi took a deep breath and mentally prepared herself for all the imagined scenarios that had kept her awake last night. It had taken Perlie, the ghost dog, to convince Eli. No way the sheriff would believe in otherworld beings without seeing them the way Eli did.

“We’re using protocol from a 1985 investigation when two local girls were murdered.” Hollister’s chair squeaked when he leaned back. “A ten-year-old and a high school girl,” he said. “Lexington County department worked on the case with SLED, the State Law Enforcement Division lab, and the FBI. A famous profiler wrote about it in his book.”

A forty-year-old protocol? Oh good. After she was dead, maybe someone would make her a footnote. Andi imagined that freight train roaring down the track toward her.

“They used a victim’s sister as bait,” Hollister continued. “Can’t thank you enough for helping us. I have every reason to believe we can arrest this man.”

“You can’t use a decoy for me?” Andi wanted to ask if they planned to take out a life insurance policy on her. Fiona could make some money that way, buy herself a wine cellar, a bigger house, definitely a new car.

“From what Eli’s told us, he knows exactly what you look like, and Fiona too. If he thinks police are involved, he’ll kill the girl he’s holding hostage, and you’ll never be safe again.”

Andi could also die while they were trying to catch the pendant killer. This was all one big lose-lose proposition for her.

The sheriff tapped the cigarette again and repositioned himself in the chair, a cheek-to-cheek shift. Maybe the man had hemorrhoids. Then he breathed out as if exhaling cigarette smoke.

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