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Deep Waters

Deep Waters

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Autoren: Jayne Ann Krentz
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agreement and sipped their morning lattes.
    They had congregated inside Bea's cafe because it was too chilly to be outdoors. The fog that had descended on the cove showed no signs of lifting. It cloaked the entire town and the shoreline for several miles.
    It was nine-thirty. The pier shops wouldn't open until ten, but all of the shopkeepers had arrived early by unspoken consensus to rehash the previous night's events.
    All but one, Charity thought. She glanced out the window. There was still no sign of Elias. She hadn't seen him since he had left her at her door at two o'clock that morning. He hadn't even kissed her good night. He had been back in his cryptic mode, distant, remote, self-contained.
    Of course, she hadn't been in what anyone could call a cheerful mood herself last night. Her short stretches of restless sleep had been poisoned with instant replays of the horrifying scene inside Gwendolyn's motor home. Every time she closed her eyes, she was forced to endure the image of Elias crouched beside the blood-soaked body.
    She was becoming increasingly uneasy by his failure to show up early at the pier. She wished she had followed her first impulse and stopped by his cottage on her way to work. The two of them needed to talk. They had to get their stories straight.
    They had both spoken to Hank Tybern, the town's chief of police, last night, but the conversation had been necessarily brief. Hank had had his hands full securing the crime scene and warning the confused, anxious Voyagers not to leave town. There hadn't been time to take complete statements. He had instructed Charity and Elias to come by the station later today so that they could give him the details of what they had seen.
    When she hadn't been dreaming about blood during the night, Charity had lain awake fretting over what to tell Hank this afternoon. She had never been involved in a police investigation. She had no idea how much information she and Elias would be expected to provide concerning their activities before the murder. With luck, not much. After all, they hadn't even been the ones to discover the body. Rick Swinton and a small group of Voyagers had done that.
    Nevertheless, she had seen enough crime shows on television to guess that Tybern would want to know something about what had been happening in and around the campground prior to Gwendolyn's death. And there was no getting around the fact that she and Elias had been engaged in a highly questionable activity shortly before the murder. Namely, a spot of B and E. How did one put a respectable gloss on that kind of thing, she wondered.
    "Does the article say when Gwendolyn was killed?" Ted asked.
    Yappy read through the remainder of the lengthy piece. "The chief is waiting for the official results of the autopsy, but the reporter says that it appears she was shot between eleven-thirty, which is when she was last seen alive, and midnight. Swinton and a few of the Voyagers found her body a few minutes after twelve."
    "That's when the screaming started," Bea said. "I'll bet the county medical examiner won't be able to nail down the time of death any closer than that," Ted said, with the ghoulish authority of a devoted aficionado of the mystery genre. "Who was the last one to see her alive?"
    "I think it was that Rick Swinton character." Yappy ran his forefinger along the column and paused midway. "Yeah. Rick Swinton and a couple of Voyagers. They all saw Gwendolyn go into her motor home at eleven-thirty. She told them she needed privacy in order to focus her mind channel for the aliens. Apparently she was supposed to act as their radar control for the landing."
    "Well, if you ask me," Bea said, "I'll put my money on one of those Voyagers as the murderer. A lot of those poor, misguided souls lost their entire life savings to Gwendolyn Pitt."
    "At least a few of them must have been furious last night when the ships didn't show," Radiance said.
    "Yeah." Yappy put down the paper and picked up his latte cup. "And just about any one of 'em could have killed her."
    Ted scowled. "If it was a Voyager, he or she would have had to work fast. They were all down there on the beach until the stroke of midnight. The kids hanging around the fence saw the first ones return."
    "Don't forget, there are two beach access paths," Yappy reminded him. "The old one's been blocked off for years because it's unsafe, but it's still there."
    "That's right." Ted brightened. "And there was a lot of fog last night. One

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