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Kerryin Mountain Valley, but they aren’t related to Nan No one in that family worked at the hospital”

Maybe he’d see what he could dig up “I ht be able to help My company has resources that you may not have access to”

She brightened “That would be great”

“Detective Wilder?” Callum looked up and saw an officer in the doorway “We have a body It ht be related to the near hit and run”

Kerry indicated for Callum and Hazel to follow

Hazel looked at Callum “Evie should probably have a tour of the station or so” She should not hear about a dead body

An officer approached at Kerry’s gesture and Evie happily went off to resume her fun-filled day at the police station

Callum and Hazel went into a conference rooathered

“Kerry’s here now,” the chief of police, Al Barco, said Fifty-two, reen eyes, despite his co nature

And atable “Hi, Kerry It’s Dane Howman”

“Hey, Howot for me?”

“A hiker found a body on the banks of a river a few miles from where Evie saw hiests the cause of death was blunt force traue”

“I know that guy,” one of the other officers in the room said “He’s a wild twenty-six-year-old, been arrested three times for drunk and disorderly conduct Practically lives at Joe’s Bar and always gets into fights”

“Could one of the people he crossed have killed him?” Hazel asked

“That’s a possibility,” Kerry said “It’s where we’ll start in the investigation”