Fire Mountain by Vickie McKeehan

Author:Vickie McKeehan [McKeehan, Vickie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-11T05:00:00+00:00

The break allowed Lando to lay out what he knew about Talia’s murder and the Woodson explosion along with the counterfeiting operations. He spent the rest of the afternoon writing it all down on a large whiteboard and rolled it into the conference room to show his officers.

Gemma had made her amends to the old couple and volunteered to pick up food on the way back to the station.

While she was gone, he managed to sit back and study what he had. He realized he was still in the theory stage and didn’t much like admitting that. But he’d have to make it clear tonight just how complicated this case had become.

By the time Gemma got back with supper, his team wandered in and gathered around the table. While the others dug into the takeout cartons spread out like a buffet, he decided it was as good a time as any to come clean.

“This is all speculation and not exactly quality at that. Let’s review what we know since Monday. We start off with a plane falling out of the sky. We learn the explosion blows up a fake ATF agent. We go to his house and find the body of a mummified female between twenty-five and thirty, hidden away in a trunk that also contains fake coins. According to Tuttle, the woman’s probably been dead for the same amount of time that Woodson arrives in town. Coincidence? I think not. So far, we’ve found a handful of missing women who are around the same age of our Jane Doe. But that’s within a hundred-mile radius of here. If we’re going back five years, it would seem our fake ATF agent brought the woman with him. Maybe she was already dead before getting here, hence the reason she was transported in a trunk.”

“Transported from an unknown location,” Gemma added. “Could be from anywhere?”

“That’s the tricky part. Until we nail down more about Woodson’s past, we’re bumping up against a brick wall. So let’s cover what we know. Our dead pilot had the same fingerprints as a man who supposedly died some years back by the name of Peter Olson. At some point, a live Olson becomes Woodson. If that’s not crazy enough, we have to figure out why, why did the man named Olson fake his own death.”

Lando paused to take a drink from a bottle of water. “Now we move to Talia Lewis, a local resident who marries a man she met online. By all accounts, the marriage is a mistake right from the start because Lewis is a fake and a fraud who’s only after Talia’s money. Talia might’ve caught on to his real motives for marrying her and found someone else. But that’s still a question mark. Because who was Talia’s lover? Did he exist or did she make up an affair? So far, no one’s come forward with corroborating evidence that she was having an affair. But here’s the thing. When the bride ends up dead, enter the husband’s mistress, a woman we all knew back in high school, Tiffany Ringgold.

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