He’d hiked this area many times when he was growing up and knew from this point to the levee there weren’t many houses.
A sheriff’s patrol car waited at the side of the gravel road that wound into the distance. Seth jumped from his car, and the police cruiser that had followed him from Dorothy’s house stopped behind him. The sheriff’s deputy climbed from his car as Seth approached.
“We were told to meet you guys out here. What kind of problem do we have?”
As quickly as possible Seth told him about the rogue cop who had wounded an officer and was believed to be holding a woman captive at a farm down the road. “This is all connected to an extortion ring that’s active in the city and an unsolved twenty-five-year-old murder.”
The deputy nodded. “Glad we can help you out. How do you want to handle this?”
Seth debated the options for a moment. “I think we need to move carefully.
