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Cedar Creek. So-named after a sprawling, flat canopy of trees lining a snaking brown waterway. Mary McCoy had been found on a sloping mud embankment by a pair of large boulders jutting out of the water. The creek itself was wide and shallow. A hundred feet upstream, a small waterfall fifty feet across spilled over into a rocky pool below. Froth dissipated into slow-moving currents as it headed downstream, with driftwood hitching a ride. The creek was brown due to the mud and silt dredged up off the riverbed by the cascading water. Resolving herself to continue with the crime scene visits, Alice shuffled down the embankment. She stood by the water and surveyed the area.
Just like the spot in Lantern Wood, the creek was concealed from plain sight. A man could do almost anything there at
