Chapter 18: SailingNo tool in a detective's kit is more valuable, Pete Altman thought, than a wife who'll take the grandkids to Cap'n Chilly's for ice cream while you're trying to solve a murder.
Technically he wasn't trying to solve a murder so much as get his ducks in a row. Once the autopsy report came in, his suspicious death would become a homicide. Then the pace would pick up fast, as his team gathered to pool their findings and map out plans instead of sending texts and voicemails.
Right now his phone was so full that he was only returning messages that sounded urgent. Like State Police Detective Adrienne Hall's: Call me ASAP.
Hall's voice was breathless and staticky. She was driving, she said, navigating by GPS, so he'd have to do most of the talking. Nutshell preview: Tony Harr
