Mouse Trail Ends by Paty Jager

Author:Paty Jager
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Native American Master Tracker, Game Warden, Oregon mountains, murder mystery, remote settings, twisted mystery
Publisher: Windtree Press
Published: 2019-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Hawke enjoyed his dinner with Dani. He was glad she’d called. They’d finished their meal and lingered over coffee and dessert, enjoying the fact the agents were getting antsy to leave.

They finally parted about ten.

She drove off in a car she’d purchased to use while in the valley. He was happy to learn she was staying at the place in Eagle where she lived during the winter months. That meant she had people around her who would look out for strangers.

He arrived home close to eleven. Too tired to look for a transmitter when he pulled into his parking spot at the stables, Hawke greeted Dog and the horses before climbing the stairs to his rooms and collapsing.

In the morning, he checked the bed and undercarriage of his vehicle. A small magnetic transmitter was stuck to the undercarriage. The electronic device had to have been placed there by the FBI. Giving them information about everywhere he went. He chuckled at their thinking they’d outsmarted him.

He fed the animals and cleaned out their stall the best he could with one arm. With two weeks off work, he wasn’t sure what to do with his time other than go online and see what he could find out about Sylvia Swearen. Using his work laptop from his work vehicle, he tried finding information about her on the Maryland DMV records, but the government had wiped any trace of her existence clean.

Next, he started googling her past name and finally found a couple of newspaper articles.

The articles talked about how she’d been a crucial witness against an arms dealer. That her meticulous record keeping had discovered a military officer selling arms to the countries who paid him the most.

He googled the officer and discovered he had ties with a country known for terrorism. That wasn’t good news. Had he put a hit out on the woman, and they’d just found her after a year and a half?

It didn’t make sense. But not much about the whole murder made sense. Why kill the father? They could have killed Mrs. Poulson when the father was at work and the daughter at school. Why did they pick a time when the family was camping in a remote area? Had they used the husband as leverage to get her to talk? That made sense with the two bullets. One person would have had a gun pointed at the husband and told her to talk. She didn’t and the husband was killed.

Had she lured them into the tent with a lie about having information with her? Then they shot her in a way they could ask her questions and leave her to die a slow lingering death. Did she answer their questions?

He pushed the computer to the side and stared at the table.

Hawke wished he could get his hands on Mrs. Poulson’s laptop but knew it had to be in the hands of the FBI by now.

He pulled his computer back in front of him and began looking

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