Buried (Detective Ellie Macintosh)
“Makeshift was the best she could do in the haze of the dawn, the sun reflecting on the lake in a crimson shimmer through the trees. The branches would be bare soon, skeleton arms lifted to the sky.
Afterward she went into the house. The bedroom was a gory display of torn sheets and the rug was ruined, soaked with blood in one corner, and she wondered how much it would be noticed that it was gone.
One person might think it was odd, but that was just a chance she had to take.
* * * Gray light..., the scent of water and fecund odor of rotting leaves … The image was not going anywhere soon and Ellie tried to shake it off even as she walked up the echoing, untidy stairway to Jason Santiago’s apartment. She gestured at a tricycle sitting by a doorway, small pink tassels on the handlebars. “I have a fair idea of what his salary is, so even if we aren’t exactly rich as police officers, why does he choose to live somewhere like this? It looks like a lot of young families live here.”MoreLess
Afterward she went into the house. The bedroom was a gory display of torn sheets and the rug was ruined, soaked with blood in one corner, and she wondered how much it would be noticed that it was gone.
One person might think it was odd, but that was just a chance she had to take.
* * * Gray light..., the scent of water and fecund odor of rotting leaves … The image was not going anywhere soon and Ellie tried to shake it off even as she walked up the echoing, untidy stairway to Jason Santiago’s apartment. She gestured at a tricycle sitting by a doorway, small pink tassels on the handlebars. “I have a fair idea of what his salary is, so even if we aren’t exactly rich as police officers, why does he choose to live somewhere like this? It looks like a lot of young families live here.”MoreLess
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