Fault Line Ross And Rosencrantz 1 – Thomas Scott

Virgil pulled the Range Rover to the shoulder and killed the engine. The county road behind them was empty in both directions… the kind of empty that didn’t happen by accident…and not in a place that showed so much traffic on paper. Murton stepped out and stretched and looked around while trying to look like he wasn’t looking around. “Is it just me, or does it feel like we just drove off the map?”

“It’s still the map,” Virgil said. “They just decided people didn’t need to read this part anymore.” Mayo closed his folder. “The parcels Patty and that anonymous caller mentioned? They’re close. Maybe a mile south of here.” Virgil nodded. “We’ll have to go on foot.” Murton adjusted his jacket.

“Well, we’ve done it before, except now we’re older. Shouldn’t some wisdom be kicking in right about now?” “It already has,” Mayo said. “It must have.” “What makes you say that?” Virgil asked. “Well, my name is on the door and you guys have made me a full partner.”

Murton clapped Mayo on the back. “I don’t want to burst your bubble, but that’s not wisdom on our part. It’s more likely the result of too many blows to the head. What did you say your name was again?” Mayo ignored him and stepped over the rail, then Virgil and Murton did as well.

They moved down the hill and through the brush, following the faint suggestion of a path that wasn’t a trail, and wasn’t man-made…just a line where the grass had been bent down and never stood back up. The river corridor stretched ahead, dry in the spring, the stones exposed and pale.

Halfway down the slope, Murton stopped and said, “Hold on.” Then he tipped his head and listened. A sound rose from somewhere deeper in the trees. It wasn’t far off or loud, but it was unmistakable: The sound of an engine idling low, like a car’s engine kept running when someone didn’t plan on staying long. “I don’t think that’s a tractor,” Mayo said. Virgil nodded. “No, it isn’t.

The rhythm’s wrong.” They stayed still, listening. Then the engine revved once, settled again…and shortly after, the sound faded as the vehicle moved away. “Think that was a warning?” Murton said. Virgil shook his head. “I doubt it. Warnings are usually more direct. I think that was simply meant to be noticed.” They continued down until the riverbed leveled out.

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And when those types of things happen, they usually do so because something else has been building quietly in the background, its construct one of manufactured urgency rather than efficiency. Every cop, lawyer, judge, and juror in the world recognizes it when they see it, and Shelby County Sheriff Tom Rosencrantz was no different. Rosencrantz stepped into his office through the private side door a little after seven in the morning. The building sat quietly in the early spring light, the kind of stillness he’d always liked.

Shelby County might have been growing around the edges, but most mornings here were the same as they’d always been: A pot of coffee half-finished, reports stacked on Lucy’s desk, and voices drifting in from the hallway where deputies Brian Sands and Jay Kelly were trading stories about nothing in particular.

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