“The hitchhiker was Macguire.”
“A team’s already gone up to Grizzly Creek. Because it was Tony and Marla, Captain Shockley’s put himself personally in charge.” His tone very clearly said, And you know what that means. “Goldy, you’re going to have to let me get back to you.”
“Are there any …” I couldn’t say the rest.
“No reports of death, no bodies floating in the creek or washed up on the shore,” he said curtly, and hung up.
I grabbed my mug of coffee and my keys and ran out the back door.
Once I was in the van, however, I sat, bewildered. What was I doing, exactly? I took a slug of espresso and thought, What’s a logical explanation for this? Okay, Tony and Marla were miserable out there camping in that awful storm. There was some kind of problem with Marla’s Mercedes, so they got a r
