Mad Dog and Englishman: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery #1 (Mad Dog & Englishman Series) by Hayes J M

Author:Hayes, J M [Hayes, J M]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
ISBN: 9781615950881
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2013-02-02T18:30:00+00:00

Ellen Lane sighed and sat back in her chair. “That sounded like a threat, Sheriff. But I guess I don’t blame you. I feel pretty much the same way as you. What the law tells me I can do to protect my daughter has very little relationship to what I’m prepared to do.”

“That reminds me. You said you had a 9 mm. Are you carrying it now?”.

She nodded. “Yes. It’s in my purse.”

He reached out and picked up her purse from where she’d deposited it on the desk and pulled the pistol out. “You have a permit to carry a concealed weapon I assume?”.

She didn’t say anything.

“Then you won’t mind if I hold on to it for the time being, until we get this settled. And maybe being without it will refresh your memory. All that stands between your ex-husband and you and your daughter in this county, Mrs. Lane, is me. Sooner or later he’s going to discover he’s made a mistake. Then he’s going to come looking, unless I find him first. You can help me do that.”

She paused and stared out the window at an afternoon that was darker than it should be at this hour. The sheriff wondered if a storm was building up in the west, and whether she was organizing her thoughts or composing fresh lies.

“I used to live here when I was little,” she said. “Ben knows that.”.

“Ben’s your ex-husband, right?” The sheriff was so focused on his daughter’s plight that her revelation hardly registered.

“Yes.”

“Tell me about him. What’s he like? Where’s he from? Do you know why he was sexually abusive to your daughter or what the extent of his deviance might be? Would it include pubescent females like my daughter, for instance? Does he have a history of violence? Give me the stuff I need to know, not his favorite color or his shoe size.” Even as he said it, the sheriff realized that last one might be important too, but not now. After Heather was OK he could go back to being a law enforcement officer instead of a frightened father.

“I know surprisingly little about him, considering that we were married for almost four years. Most of what I thought I knew turned out to be lies. I thought he was Spanish. I thought that was why he had kind of an olive complexion and that dark, curly hair and brown eyes. He spoke it fluently, and he talked about going back to visit the old country, only after he was arrested, it turned out he was just a mix of Mexican and poor white trash.

“The main thing I can tell you about him is that he’s false. He hides behind some kind of mask all the time, picks a role and plays it. I never had a clue until I came home unexpectedly one afternoon and caught him in the act. Up to then, I would have called him a great guy, attentive, sexy, a good provider. Then the mask came off and I found out none of it was real.

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