CHAPTER ELEVEN
Harley watched the ranch-style house through her dusty side-mirror as the western horizon blazed blood-red. As she waited for Medrano to return home, she mentally recalled the details she had dredged up on him from the FBI database.
Michael Stanfield Medrano was a forty-three-year-old who had attended high school in Farmington before dropping out his sophomore year to begin building his criminal resume: shoplifting (twice), arson (setting a car on fire outside a bar, apparently because the barman refused to serve him), and cruelty to animals.
This last charge interested Harley most, but the details were sketchy. According to the report, he had been fired from his part-time job at an animal rescue center for “mistreating” some of the animals. The severity of this mistreatm
