A Haunting of the Bones (2014)
“Bell Elkins tore through the tape as if it were tinsel on last year’s Christmas tree—as if it were, that is, superfluous, out of place, and certainly nothing that ought, under the present circumstances, to be impeding her progress. She crossed the lot in five long strides, dodging emergency vehicles, hopping over crumble-edged fissures in the blacktop. Her arms were tucked tight against her sides, hands curled into fists, chin tilted up as she charged forward.
The door was blocked by Deputy Cha...rlie Mathers. He was a wide man with slicked-back black hair, a perpetual frosting of sweat on his bright pink forehead, and a small dimple in his chin that looked like the half-moon print of a baker’s thumbnail pressed randomly in a ball of dough.
“Ms. Elkins,” he said, palms held straight up like stop signs, as if she might just take a mind to run him over, “this here’s a crime scene and I really can’t let you—”
“Hell with that, Charlie. My daughter’s in there.”
Bell pressed the crunchy ball of yellow tape against his massive chest and prepared to go right on by.MoreLess
The door was blocked by Deputy Cha...rlie Mathers. He was a wide man with slicked-back black hair, a perpetual frosting of sweat on his bright pink forehead, and a small dimple in his chin that looked like the half-moon print of a baker’s thumbnail pressed randomly in a ball of dough.
“Ms. Elkins,” he said, palms held straight up like stop signs, as if she might just take a mind to run him over, “this here’s a crime scene and I really can’t let you—”
“Hell with that, Charlie. My daughter’s in there.”
Bell pressed the crunchy ball of yellow tape against his massive chest and prepared to go right on by.MoreLess
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