Have You Seen Her?
Chapter One
Present Day, Raleigh, North Carolina, Monday, September 26, 10:00
A.M.
THE FACT THAT HE'D SEEN MORE HORRIFIC SCENES over the course of his
career should have made this one easier to mentally process.
Should have.
It didn't.
Special Agent Steven Thatcher loosened his tie, but it didn't do a
thing to help the flow of air to his lungs. It didn't do a thing to
change what he'd found in the clearing after the North Carolina
State Bureau of Investigation received an anonymous tip leading them
to this place.
It certainly didn't do a thing to bring the poor dead woman back to
life.
So Steven centered the knot of his tie right over the lump in his
throat. He stepped forward carefully, earning him a glare from the
rookie Forensics had sent because the rookie's boss had picked the
week they discovered a gruesome, brutal murder to take a cruise to
the Caribbean.
Now, looking at the mangled corpse, heavily scavenged by whatever
creatures lived in these woods, Steven couldn't help wishing he were
on a boat far from civilization, too.
"Watch your feet," the rookie cautioned from his ... read full excerpt from: Have You Seen Her? ebook
