CHAPTER 14
Frost felt like his guts were on a see-saw between terror and euphoria. He barreled down the stairs behind Chief Steadman, trying not to chafe his thighs between his still-damp pant legs. Holy smokes—he never dreamed he’d see this much action so soon after putting on his detective badge.
Despite the state of emergency, murder still took precedence for the detective division. Chief Steadman headed up investigations into major crimes and since Polander had already dispatched most of the force to deal with the disaster, he’d pegged Frost to accompany Steadman on the case. Frost had mixed feelings about that. He thought the sheriff had been about to send him downtown with the lovely Jamieson, an idea that held some attraction for him. But a murder case promised to be interesting i
