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After the chat with Mac, Ross dressed and returned to his dining table. Making a mental note that he needed to go to the store for groceries or eat out until this case was solved, he dug under a stack of papers for a map of Florida. Unfolding it in the center of the table, he turned it over. Five cities on the back were shown in detail. Tampa Bay was one. Grabbing a highlighter from between the stacks of files, he marked places with a dot. Shade Tree Center. The halfway house. The docks. The marina. The florist. Audrey’s condo. With a pen and the edge of a folder, he made straight lines connecting the locations and studied the irregular hexagon. Then he logged into his laptop and pulled up the city bus routes.
When Audrey placed a mug of coffee and a plate with a cinnamon roll on it n
