AFTER A COUPLE OF FOLLOW-up questions, Nathan and Lizzie thanked Benji again and returned to the car.
“We need to get our hands on a map of the Texas Forts Trail. You know we’re headed to Bronte, right?” she confirmed.
“Absolutely,” Nathan agreed as he climbed behind the wheel. “Good call on your theory, by the way.”
“Thanks,” she answered. “I’m coming up with ten as a possible total. So, does your math match mine?”
“Yep,” Nathan told her. “Benji mentioned eleven forts total. We have three connected cases we know of, and by this weekend we’ll know if the lady in Bronte that Benji just told us about makes four.”
“Which means,” Lizzie sighed, “since Benji’s shooting ties back to two of the forts, that we have a possibility of having up to six more homicides on our hands – if my theory w
