I convinced Harry to wait and see who showed as counsel, since Douthitt’s lawyer was special-ordered. Most of these guys used bargain-basement attorneys who had grubby offices squeezed between the bail bondsmen by the courthouse. Instead, the guy who showed up was a slender, bespectacled guy in h...
Two phone calls about dogs came through in ten minutes. After a few questions I determined neither was Mix-up. Cherry arrived twenty minutes later. “Are you converted yet?” I said, stepping from my truck and handing back the borrowed briefcase, empty now. She pushed open the door and we went insi...
He opened it, saw a color plate of a body splayed open, and slid it back into place. He turned to Sandhill, sitting at the table in the apartment’s dining area. “So what does it mean, Sandhill? What James said?” Sandhill scribbled on a legal pad, attempting to make connections between names. Line...
It was an hour earlier there, seven o’clock Mountain Time. She sounded tired, like it had been a long day. “Ms Cruz, is there a Women’s Crisis Center in Denver?” I heard her stifle a yawn. “Yes. Why?” I told her what we’d discovered from Gail. And that she might want to speak with local women’s s...