Jill's suggestion we try his house first turned up a darkened residence with no car in the driveway.

"If he did it, he could have cut town by now." She sounded anxious enough I drove a little faster than normal on my way to the church. When we pulled into the parking lot, the tall, white steeple overhead, shaded maple trees stark and bare in the December mid-morning, my deputy friend sighed at the sight of a few cars in the lot, one of which she pointed out ...