A Crane Christmas

Chapter 5 – Stop, Thief

Chapter 5 – Stop, Thief

Thursday, December 11th, 2014

Shane was finally done giving testimony in a murder case we’d had on the books since early in the Summer but, with all of his open cases, I didn’t bother to pull him in when we got another burglary call in a high class north neighborhood. I just collected Mason and we picked back up where we left off on Tuesday.

I steered my county SUV past the gated guard house to a development off of Newark Road and I watched for the Marshburn household address dispatch had collected.

Janet looked around as we proceeded down the single lane past mansions set wide apart but with little but some rolling acreage between them. Trees and other vegetation were few and far between but the land wasn’t set up as horse pasture either.

Shaking her head, she