The Girl Who Survived (LEIGH BRODY FBI MYSTERY #1) by Nichole Severn EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Nichole Severn
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Lebanon, New Hampshire
Thursday, March 11
11:30 a.m.
Not many people cared when you were alive.
But they sure took an interest once you were dead.
Leigh Brody studied the controlled chaos of the scene as she stepped
from the vehicle that’d been waiting for her at the municipal airport.
Crystalized puffs of exhales formed in front of her mouth. She’d gotten the
call to Lebanon less than four hours ago, the flight nearly an hour and a half
from Clarksburg, West Virginia. Straight from one frozen hellscape to
another: the town she’d sworn never to come back to.
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Pulling her credentials from her coat, she targeted the nearest officer
serving as scene security, and a hint of recognition registered. Then again,
returning to a town of less than 13,700 people was sure to put her in the
crosshairs of a few familiar faces. His name slipped her mind, but she
guessed they were about the same age. Had probably even been in the same
graduating class. “I’m Leigh Brody, FBI. I was told—”
“Leigh Brody. Well, hell. Didn’t think you’d have the guts to come back
here. Haven’t you and your family done enough to this town?” His voice
grated against her nerves. Mid-morning streaks of sunlight penetrated
through the thick density of the trees and reflected off the officer’s receding
hairline. His clean-shaven jawline, bleached teeth, and wide shoulders gave
her the impression of someone who obviously took great care of himself,
but it was the way he widened his stance, preparing for an oncoming fight
or to bar her from the scene, that revealed the assumed power he believed
he held. “You don’t remember me, do you?”
Her gaze slid to the gold nametag pinned above his right pectoral.
“Pierce.”
“Donavon Pierce,” he said.
The name rang a bell, but she wasn’t about to give him the satisfaction.
“Okay, Donavon Pierce. I was called here to consult on an investigation.
Are you going to let me get to that, or should I keep pretending we go way
back?”
Pierce’s mouth hiked higher at one side, and recognition burned hot.
She’d caught Donavon Pierce slashing her car’s tires one late night after
school, that same snarl carved into his expression. She’d had to pay for the
damage with the money she’d saved up to get out of town. He hefted the
perimeter tape high enough for her to bow underneath then lowered it
behind her and handed her the sign-in sheet designed to track every officer,
agent, and tech in and out of the scene. “Those federal types are waiting for
you.”
“Great.” Unsettled dread tightened the tendons between her neck and
shoulders. She’d known coming back here wouldn’t bring closure or a sense
of nostalgia, but she hadn’t expected the anxiety to start before she’d gotten
eyes on the body.
The frozen sting in her fingertips rushed her to the point
she wasn’t sure Pierce could even read her signature. Leigh pocketed her
credentials with one hand and gripped her duffle bag with the other.
A wide, graveled trailhead and the rusted, stainless-steel guardrail that’d
seen better days curved along the path and inclined toward the covered
bridge.
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