by Patti Winters

Created on: January 24, 2009   Last Updated: October 21, 2010

Molly stared at the screen in front of her in frustration. How hard could it be to write ten simple pages? Obviously extremely hard! Molly sighed in frustration. She had created a self imposed goal of ten pages a day but today she had been luck to manage a paragraph.

Molly reread her outline for this part of the book and reread the preceding page and she started writing. She was in the middle of a murder scene when the phone rang next to her. Molly jumped and put her hand to her chest to try and calm her heart down, while she stared at the phone. She grabbed it and said, "Hel..."

"Molly, its Chris. I need your to come down to the station!"

"Why?"

"I have a case for you to work on."

"Chris, I'm retired. I am an author now."

Chris shouted, "Have you published anything?"

"Well, no, but I have a few articles submitted and I am working on my book."

"Molly please. We need you for this."

"Chris, you know why I don't take cases any longer."

"I know Molly, but you were a great detective. You shouldn't quit after one bad case."

"Chris, I almost died. If you hadn't come when you did I would have died. I am officially on disability because of my eyes."

"But you won't have to worry about your eyes for this one. I have a missing persons case for you that I need your expertise on."

Molly put her head down on the desk and sighed, "Who is the missing person?"

"Angel"

Molly's head popped up. "I'll be right down."

"I'll have Johnson pick you up. You aren't supposed to drive."

"Alright, I'll be ready in 10 minutes."

"Make it five, he already left."

"Chris!"

"Bye Molly."

Molly jumped up and ran into the bedroom. While she was throwing on some clean clothes, running a brush through her hair, tossing on some deodorant and brushing her teeth, she thought back to her last case.

It had seemed like a normal missing persons case. If you could call any missing person normal.

A young woman had gone missing. She had left work but never made it home. After two days they had found her car abandoned down by the lake. There hadn't been any sign of a struggle, her purse was missing, so it was assumed it was with her. Molly had ordered a sweep of the area just in case it had been dumped somewhere close by.

As they started to dig into her life, they found out she had a boyfriend. The husband had an alibi. He had been at the children's school volunteering during the time of her disappearance. Unless he had an accomplice, he was in the clear.

They ended up tracing the lady's boyfriend to an old

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