"Sheriff Rogers here." He held his hand over the microphone and whispered to Ronnie, "It's Adam. Dot's awake."

"Good." She returned to her inspection of the bookshelves.

Mitch stuffed his cell in his pants pocket.

"Here's another space where something was removed." She pointed to the next shelf above.

"I think we need a search warrant for his residential property, but we're going to need more than 'we think' he hit Dot. We need hard evidence he abandoned his ...