Cold Company: An Alaska Mystery

330 Pages·2003·0.94 MB·English

by  Sue Henry

S U E H E N R Y

COLD

COM PANY

AN ALASKA MYSTERY
In memory of my mother,
Lois Hutchison Hall,
whose most enduring gift to me has been
the love of words, books, and mysteries
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Contents
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1 SPRING WAS MAKING ITSELF HEARD
IN THE CHUGACH Mountains south… 1
2 LATE ON A MILD BUT CLOUDY
EVENING OF THE SECOND… 6
3 IN THE BRILLIANCE OF A SUNNY
MORNING, JOHN TIMmons, assistant… 12
4 FOLLOWING THE DEPARTURE OF THE
FORENSICS TEAM, the construction crew… 22
5 AT SIXTY-ONE DEGREES FIFTEEN
MINUTES LATITUDE north, Anchorage
near summer… 32
6 WITH THE FOOTINGS POURED AND
CURING, THE CABINbuilding crew went… 40
7 AT TWO O’CLOCK THE NEXT
AFTERNOON, JESSIE PULLED
her pickup… 54
8 THE DAY WAS SLIGHTLY OVERCAST,
WITH PATCHES OF blue between… 65
9 VIC PRENTICE AND ONE OF HIS MEN
HAD ALREADY BEEN… 73
10 “THIS IS A NEW BODY, NOT ONE OF
HANSEN’S,” TIMMONS… 86
11 IT WAS A WARM DAY AND JESSIE
LEFT THE DOOR…. 99
12 “HI. I’M DONE FOR THE DAY,” JESSIE
TOLD LYNN EHLERS… 109
13 IT WAS NEARING MIDNIGHT WHEN
LYNN AND JESSIE Returned… 119
14 EVERYONE ARRIVED ALMOST AT
ONCE THE FOLLOWING morning.
Vic Prentice… 128
15 IN THE SUNLIGHT, CLEARLY VISIBLE
BEYOND THE EARLY afternoon
shadows… 137
16 WHEN THE LOGS WERE FIVE HIGH,
THE CRANE WAS SHUT… 149
17 PETERSON CAME ROARING UP THE
DRIVE IN THE FLATBED truck… 160
18 AT CLOSE TO ELEVEN O’CLOCK ON A
MIDWEEK EVENING, the… 170
19 JESSIE DIDN’T SLEEP FOR LONG
AFTER EHLERS LEFT. SHE was… 175
20 “LEAVE HER BE FOR NOW,” HANK
PETERSON TOLD VIC Prentice… 187
21 PILOT BEN CASWELL WAS WAITING
AT THE WASILLA field with… 200
22 THE RIGHT WING, ALREADY
LOWERED FOR THE TURN, HIT first… 211
23 “WHY?” 220
24 THE CHEERFUL MUSIC OF A WARBLER
SOMEWHERE IN THE nearby… 232
25 LATE IN THE DAY, WHEN THE SUN
HAD DROPPED BEHIND… 241
26 ONE MEMBER OF THE CREW ARRIVED
EARLY THE NEXT morning… 246
27 BECKER SHOWED UP SOONER THAN
JESSIE THOUGHT POSsible,
considering that… 255
28 “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?”
PRENTICE DEMANDED, trotting up… 265
29 PHIL BECKER AND HIS PARTNER HAD
WALKED A LONG way… 275
30 “JESSIE?” 285
31 ON A SUNNY MORNING IN AUGUST,
JESSIE ARNOLD stood in… 294
32 AS IF TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE
LATENESS OF THE SPRING,… 307
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Other Books by Sue Henry
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