Caroline and Lamar came out of the police station.
“Well?” asked Boomer as they climbed back into the car.
Caroline braced herself for Lamar’s account of her naïve performance, but for whatever reason, he cut her a break and didn’t embarrass her in front of Boomer.
“The cops plan on checking her property,” Lamar answered. “And checking the hospitals.”
As their car pulled out of the parking lot, Caroline’s cell phone sounded. It was Linus. “What’s going on up there?” he asked in his gruff tone.
She told him what she knew. “Sorry, Linus, but I really don’t have much more to tell you. I think the police are stretched pretty thin up here. Somebody in town was found murdered yesterday, and two kids from the theater program died in a car accident a few days before that. This is not an ordinary week for them.”
“I’m sending Annabelle Murphy up to help you.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah. She’ll be there this afternoon.”
Caroline was relieved to hear that Annabelle was coming, yet somehow disappointed that Linus didn’t trust her to handle things herself. But based on her less-than-stellar performance in the police station just now, Caroline suspected Linus was right to be sending up reinforcements.
She listened as the executive producer finished describing his plan. “If it turns out Belinda Winthrop is dead, we have to be in position to be all over it. I’ll have Constance Young on standby, ready to get up there, too, if we need her.”