The Body in the Backyard (RILEY THORN #4) by Lucy Score EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lucy Score
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11:17 a.m. Saturday, November 2
“They’re coming.”
The message vibrated with crystal clear intensity.
Trusting her spiritual adviser Gabe to handle the slow-moving
roommates, Riley Thorn ran from the office, wiping dog slobber off her
hands onto her jeans as she went. She needed to warn Nick, her tattooed,
dimpled PI boyfriend, before it was too late. She flung open the front door
in time to spy him parking her Jeep nose-to-nose with homicide detective
Kellen Weber’s police issue SUV across the driveway.
“Woo-hoo! Finally some action! Lemme at ’em,” the ghost of Riley’s
long-dead uncle Jimmy crowed from the Jeep.
Weber was already hunkered down behind the wheel well of his vehicle,
wearing a bulletproof vest and loading a rifle with deadly-looking rounds.
“They’re coming,” she said through cupped hands.
“Get back in the house now, Riley,” Nick ordered, hopping out of the
driver’s seat and rounding the back of the Jeep.
Just then, the distant pop pop pop of gunfire exploded, followed by the
faraway whine of sirens.
“They’re not going to get here in time,” she whispered to herself as she
was closing the door.
But she didn’t do it fast enough. Burt, her burly dog, bolted through her
legs, out the door, and off the porch.
“Burt! No!” she cried.
Tires squealed on the street.
Pop. Pop.
Swearing to herself, Riley slammed the door and raced into the yard
after her idiot dog.
“Damn it, Thorn!” Nick growled.
She tackled Burt to the cold ground two feet from Nick as tires squealed
again before giving way to the crunch and scrape of metal.
In an impressive show of strength, Nick grabbed her and Burt and
dragged them behind the Jeep’s fender. “Stay down,” he ordered.
Burt’s tail thumped happily against Riley’s leg. “You’re in big trouble
when this is over,” she told the dog.
Nick put a knee to Riley’s back, holding her down. From her belly-level
view under the Jeep, she watched as Harrisburg’s morning news anchor and
her regrettable ex-husband Griffin Gentry’s snazzy sports car smashed
through their gate…again. On his tail was a powder-blue Fiat with guns
hanging out of both windows.
“Ready?” Weber yelled.
“Kick ass on one,” Nick said. “Three…”
Free of the gate, Griffin’s car accelerated, sending gravel flying.
“Two.”
Riley watched in horror and braced herself as the car fishtailed before
smacking soundly into the driver’s-side door of the Jeep.
“One,” Nick shouted.
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