Hard Truth by Nevada Barr
By Nevada Barr
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Tell dispatch we’re going to need search dogs come morning, see if we can backtrack to where the third girl is. ” Anna left her hat on the ground. It went against the grain. Her dog, Taco, a three-legged but brave-hearted Lab, would have made short work of the Stetson-as-chew-toy. “Don’t even think about it,” she muttered to the helper dog and walked back into the light. The blonde, Alexis Sheppard, looked the sturdier of the two—if one hummingbird in a hurricane can look stronger than another.
Littleton locked the brakes on her wheels. Anna belted herself into a captain’s chair on a swivel base. It was covered in velvet-soft buttercolored leather. She chose not to think what her soggy, metalbristling nether parts were doing to the upholstery. Dr. Littleton took to the driver’s seat and followed the ambulance out the rain-dark road. Dispatch radioed that Lorraine Knight would meet them at the children’s wing of the Estes Park hospital. Arrangements were being made for a child psychologist and a detective from the Estes Park police department to join them.
Pet him. He doesn’t mind. ” 24 NEVADA BARR The small hand closed in the thick fur of the dog’s ruff. Wiley sat very still and grinned. “They can understand us at least,” Heath said to her aunt, then: “Oh shit, we should call somebody,” as she remembered her responsibilities. “I already tried,” Gwen said. Skipper’s feet were cleaned and bound. The doctor set them gently on the ground and moved over to attend to the limpet’s feet. “Cell phone won’t work in this canyon. ” Heath should have thought of that.