The Stranger's Secrets (2010)
“He’d never believed that particular emotion would overcome him, but it had. Right after they found evidence Sarah had been taken.
Her cane lay in the dirt, discarded in the rotten lettuce leaves and broken crates behind the hotel restaurant. She’d never leave it behind. It was not only her walking stick, but her weapon.
He knew the secret of the handle as well as he knew she’d never have let the cane go without a fight. Abernathy had her. Whitman knelt beside the tracks and determined she’d been shoved up against the wall, possibly beaten, before he dragged her down the alley.
When he rose, a small smear of blood caught his eye on the wall. He reached out with a shaking finger and touched it. The wet texture told him what he already knew.
It was fresh. It was Sarah’s.
“He knew we were getting close.” Whitman whirled to face the sheriff. “If you hadn’t been after Sarah for Mavis’s murder, this wouldn’t have happened. Don’t you know how to investigate a crime? You look at all the eviden...ce, not the circumstantial shit any fool could see.”MoreLess
Her cane lay in the dirt, discarded in the rotten lettuce leaves and broken crates behind the hotel restaurant. She’d never leave it behind. It was not only her walking stick, but her weapon.
He knew the secret of the handle as well as he knew she’d never have let the cane go without a fight. Abernathy had her. Whitman knelt beside the tracks and determined she’d been shoved up against the wall, possibly beaten, before he dragged her down the alley.
When he rose, a small smear of blood caught his eye on the wall. He reached out with a shaking finger and touched it. The wet texture told him what he already knew.
It was fresh. It was Sarah’s.
“He knew we were getting close.” Whitman whirled to face the sheriff. “If you hadn’t been after Sarah for Mavis’s murder, this wouldn’t have happened. Don’t you know how to investigate a crime? You look at all the eviden...ce, not the circumstantial shit any fool could see.”MoreLess
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