Chapter 5
(Tuesday, September 23, 2013)
JANET SEEMED COMPOSED if quiet at work, and the newsroom settled down. The routine stories of violence and stupidity—a high-speed chase resulting in two dead bystanders—kept Mac busy.
Mac did more checks but with too few leads to find anything out about the history of Janet’s father and her son. Frustrated, he started thinking about just driving out to this place—Jehovah’s Valley? —and taking a look around. He had the weekend off. Shorty might like to go along. He grinned at the thought of what his friend would say about wasting a weekend traipsing off to eastern Oregon. Maybe he’d just go himself.
“Mac, can I talk to you for a moment?” Steve Whitman said. Mac looked away from his computer, automatically saving and shutting the file. Whitman was
