Mountain Rescue
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Jack had decided instead to chase one final lead all the way up to Manitoulin Island. Either he’d find the proof his story was solid or face the fact that when he walked back into the office it would be to kiss his job goodbye. Every well-honed instinct in his journalistic gut was convinced these three murders were somehow connected. Especially now that he’d looked across a ferry and locked eyes on her.
His eyes zeroed in on a picture of the final crime scene. There, amid the broken glass and chaos, two flyers lay on the floor, next to where a young woman had been stabbed. One was an island ferry schedule, with this afternoon circled. The other read Meg Duff, Island Weddings above the picture of a beautiful woman with troubled blue eyes. The very same woman who’d just disappeared off into the fog.
A heavyset man jostled past him, his coffee slopping over the rim of his cup and onto the page. Jack leapt back and tripped over something. A cell phone. Was it Meg’s? Had she dropped it in her hurry to get away from him? He slipped the phone and the wet pages into his bag. Well, she might not want to talk to him as a journalist, but he wouldn’t be much of a gentleman if he didn’t at least try to return her phone.
Jack shoved the door back open and walked outside. Wow. It’s like soup out here. He strode down the deck, choosing a direction at random.
A scream split the air. Female. Terrified. He started running. Then he saw them. A figure in a raincoat had wrestled Meg over the railing. Her hands were tied. Her feet kicked frantically. Adrenaline surged through Jack’s body, pushing his legs into a flat-out sprint.
Meg’s attacker threw her overboard.
Copyright © 2014 by Mags Storey
ISBN-13: 9781460337547
MOUNTAIN RESCUE
Copyright © 2014 by Pat White
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