My 6-year-old granddaughter phoned me in panic just after midnight. “Mommy says the baby is coming! Help!” I asked, “Where’s daddy?” She answered, “He k!cked mommy’s tummy and left.”…..

What else? I need someone inside Trent’s social circle. Someone who knows where he keeps his money, who he trusts, what makes him paranoid. Try June Callaway runs the bar at the copper mine in. She dated Trent a few years back before he married Cassidy. He still drinks there most nights. Shoots his mouth off when he’s had too many. Harry made a mental note.

Anyone else I should know about? Marshall Irwin lives in that trailer park east of town. Army medic in Afghanistan. Came back with PTSD and a drinking problem. Lost his house, wife, everything. You pulled him out of debt during the recession. Gave him work when nobody else would. Man’s got loyalty and he hates bullies.

Harry remembered Marshall. Quiet, competent, haunted by things he’d seen overseas. Good man to have in a corner. One more thing, Delmare continued. Word is there’s a new sheriff coming to town. Griffin Lasowl, decorated state trooper from Helena, supposed to clean up the department, root out the corruption, start officially in 2 weeks.