Chapter 25 – Off TrackFaye Crane
5:00 PM, Sunday, November 9th, 2014
Family Dinner at the Crane Family Farm
I looked at Mel closely as she talked to her father and Dana over after dinner pie and coffee. Normally, she wasn’t much of a coffee drinker, but this evening she was working on her second full cup. She’d been out most of the night investigating an attempted murder this time. She seemed so tired.
Chloe smiled thinly as she noticed the line of my gaze. “A mother’s concern,” she said out loud, “it’s never ending.”
“She’s in critical condition and, frankly, a really bad way,” Mel was saying. “They’ve got her in an induced coma and I’ve got her under 24-hour watch. Unfortunately, word spread quickly that she’s alive and that at least three suspects got away.”
“This is just insane,”
