A River Red With Blood ( Charlie Parker # 23 )

They had to drive around for a while to find her, which was always hazardous, but the police didn’t spend any more time in Fishkorn than they had to. A nineteen-year-old Bingham girl named Mallory Norton had gone missing shortly before the discovery of Scott’s body, and had yet to be found. When she dropped off the radar, those handlers couldn’t be sure it wasn’t for reasons pertinent to the investigation, but safety procedures must have been built into the system. In Detroit, the cross-checking of traffic-camera images with the details of the Airbnb renters from the Hamtramck apartments on the night Gai Cotter vanished finally produced a match.