After a ten-minute interrogation by Susan, Penny escaped to her room with the phone. She’d told Susan the truth, she’d seen no one but Zoe after the show, and had gone nowhere but home after their chat in the shop.
She dialed Zoe’s number, fully expecting to reach her friend’s grumpy grandmother, but Zoe answered after the first ring.
“Did the Sheriff visit you yet?” Penny asked.
“Yeah,” Zoe said. “It was weird. Grandma followed him outside when he tried to leave and wouldn’t let him go for five minutes.”
Zoe laughed, but it sounded uneasy.
“Did she get anything out of him?”
“Yeah,” Zoe said. “I hid behind the door and listened. He thinks she ran away. Her parents just got divorced and her dad moved, so they think she ran off to live with him.”
“Then why are they questioning people?
