Crime & Justice · fiction
The Cook Who Read the Ledgers
Elias Crowe had ridden into Red Creek for flour, ammunition, coffee, and enough lamp oil to carry him through another month. He had not expected to find a woman chained to a cedar post in the middle of the market. The Arizona sun hung directly overhead, white and merciless, burning the color out of everything it touched. Dust coated the street,...
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