Bringing Maddie Home (2013)
“Police Captain Colin McAllister lifted his head. “Bones?”
He’d waved Duane into his office a minute before. Lieutenant Duane Brewer headed Criminal Investigations, which meant that when he wanted a word, it was more likely to be about a corpse than a shoplifter. Still, it had taken Colin a moment to tear his attention from his computer monitor. He’d been trying to figure out how to plug holes in manpower without leapfrogging academy grads, with their shiny new badges, to detective. The prob...lem was becoming chronic, and he knew who to blame. He’d known for ten years where the cancer lurked that was sickening the Angel Butte Police Department. He was just too damned stubborn to jump ship the way the others had.
He saved the work on his computer and leaned back in his leather desk chair, studying the man who’d been his mentor and whom he now outranked.
Fifty-four years old and thickening around the waist, Duane was the quintessential detective: patient, thorough and dogged.MoreLess
He’d waved Duane into his office a minute before. Lieutenant Duane Brewer headed Criminal Investigations, which meant that when he wanted a word, it was more likely to be about a corpse than a shoplifter. Still, it had taken Colin a moment to tear his attention from his computer monitor. He’d been trying to figure out how to plug holes in manpower without leapfrogging academy grads, with their shiny new badges, to detective. The prob...lem was becoming chronic, and he knew who to blame. He’d known for ten years where the cancer lurked that was sickening the Angel Butte Police Department. He was just too damned stubborn to jump ship the way the others had.
He saved the work on his computer and leaned back in his leather desk chair, studying the man who’d been his mentor and whom he now outranked.
Fifty-four years old and thickening around the waist, Duane was the quintessential detective: patient, thorough and dogged.MoreLess
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