Revolver Road by Daugherty Christi

Author:Daugherty, Christi [Daugherty, Christi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9781250235893
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2020-03-09T13:00:00+00:00

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Bonnie went home a short while later to prepare for the classes she would teach the next day. Harper had the day off, and spent most of it looking for more information about Martin Dowell. Still, she could find nothing in any newspaper about him being released from prison. And little that she didn’t know already about his long list of crimes.

Late that afternoon, Luke texted:

SP tell me they’re monitoring Dowell. Ankle bracelet; limited freedom.

Harper knew “SP” would be the state police. This information should have made her feel better, but for some reason, the worried feeling in her chest didn’t lift.

After a second, she texted back:

Is he in Atlanta?

His response was instant:

Don’t know. No one’s talking.

She frowned, turning the phone over in her hand. There were very few circumstances in which police would protect an ex-con in that way. None of them made sense in this case, except one.

She typed:

Is he cooperating with them? Is he a witness?

There was a long pause before he replied:

Can’t be. He’s too dirty. He’s tainted.

Normally, she’d have agreed with him. But she’d been thinking about this all day and nothing else made sense.

I hope you’re right,

she wrote back.

I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

His reply came shortly:

Yeah. I don’t feel too good about it either.

She wanted to ask more. To find out what he thought, based on his old days working undercover. For a brief moment she considered calling him, but then put the phone down again. After all, he hadn’t called her. That might mean he was with his girlfriend right now.

The thought was a needle jab to her chest.

She didn’t have any right to be jealous. After all, she was the one who’d told him she didn’t want to try a relationship again.

So why did she feel left behind?

In an attempt to distract herself, she made food she couldn’t eat. Poured a glass of wine and didn’t drink it. Through it all, her mind kept going back to Martin Dowell, and wondering what he’d offered the police in return for his freedom.

Just after eleven o’clock, her phone finally rang, but it wasn’t Luke, calling to throw ideas around.

It was her father.

“I got your message.” His voice was clipped, distant. “That was a surprise.”

“Yeah, well.” Harper lowered herself onto the sofa and made her tone as cold as his. “Sorry to bother you. I won’t keep you long. There’s just something I need to ask you.”

“This rarely goes well,” he said dryly.

“I want to ask you about a man named Martin Dowell.”

Her father was two thousand miles away but Harper could swear she felt him stop breathing.

All he said, though, was, “I’m not sure I know that name.”

How could she have reached this age without knowing what a good liar her father was?

“That’s funny, because you were his lawyer for years.” Her voice dripped sarcasm. “I would have thought you’d remember. You look so cozy in the pictures.”

After an infinitesimal pause, he said, “Harper, what is this about? Get to the point.

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