The Morning After
“Detective Pierce Reed hadn’t seen fit to call her back. She’d gotten nothing. She’d even E-mailed, to no avail. The man was avoiding her, she decided as she finished her coffee and threw the dregs down her kitchen sink.Things weren’t much better in Dahlonega. She’d driven back there, snooped around, talked to a sheriff who just plain stonewalled her and returned to Savannah with not much more than she’d started with. She’d figured that there was something important up by Blood Mountain, that Reed’s roots were the reason he’d been called up there to the killing ground…but so far, she’d been disappointed.Her only consolation was that Norm Metzger, who had been rapid to be up in Lumpkin County, had come back pretty much empty-handed as well.“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” she’d confided to Jennings as she dressed. The cat was curled in the folds of her duvet while the seldom-used heater rumbled noisily, vainly attempting to warm the cold morning air that had seeped through... the old windows of her apartment.MoreLess
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