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Chapters (45)
  1. I know you'll never forgive me...
  2. Part One - Your Father
  3. Chapter One
  4. Chapter Two
  5. Chapter Three
  6. Chapter Four
  7. Chapter Five
  8. Chapter Six
  9. Chapter Seven
  10. Chapter Eight
  11. Chapter Nine
  12. Chapter Ten
  13. Chapter Eleven
  14. Chapter Twelve
  15. Chapter Thirteen
  16. Chapter Fourteen
  17. Chapter Fifteen
  18. Chapter Sixteen
  19. Chapter Seventeen
  20. Chapter Eighteen
  21. Chapter Nineteen
  22. Chapter Twenty
  23. Part Two - Your Mother
  24. Chapter Twenty-One
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  33. Chapter Thirty
  34. Chapter Thirty-One
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six
  40. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  41. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  43. Chapter Forty
  44. Chapter Forty-One
  45. About the Author

“That’s right. Although it wasn’t much of a meeting. I didn’t spend more than half an hour with him before I got up and left. It was just enough time for him to bribe me and me to tell him where to go. Honestly, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what his name was or what he looked like, not until he came back here last fall.”

“Did you have any other communication with him in the interim? Letters? Phone calls?”

“No.”

Darrell, who was sitting on a rickety card-table chair, put his hands on his knees and leaned forward. “After Brink was killed, why didn’t you tell us that you knew him before the lawsuit? That he’d been here before?”

“You didn’t ask.” She gave us a not-very-sweet smile. “If I’ve learned one thing from Norm during the lawsuit, it’s not to volunteer information unless someone asks me about it.”

“Were you afraid you’d be a suspect in Brink’s murder?”

“I already was, wasn’t I? From day one. You made that pretty clear, Darrell. I didn’t need to give you any more ammunition.”

“Did you kill him?”

“No.”

“Where did you meet Brink?” I asked. “Where were you when he offered you the money?”

“He was staying at the Fair Day resort. I went to his cabin, we talked, and I left.”

“Do you know how long he was in town?”

“I have no idea. I turned down his offer, and that was that.”

“Who else knew about your meeting with him?”

“Back then? Nobody. If anybody else knew, it came from Brink, not me. I didn’t talk about it at the mine. I didn’t want the other women finding out. The last thing I needed was to put the idea in their heads that they could grab a quick payout and quit. I wanted us to stick together. If one of us left, they’d work that much harder to get rid of the rest of us.”

“Do you know if Brink tried to bribe the others?”

“If he did, they didn’t say anything about it to me. But the mine saw me as the ringleader. I was the one they really wanted out.”

“What about Ruby?”

“I have no idea. Maybe. Who knows, she might have taken the cash. I’m sure she’d deny it, but it would explain a lot.”

Darrell glanced at Norm. “Did you know about Brink being in town?”