Nicola Pearson

The Body in the Blackberries Nicola Pearson

Callum Lange is fully immersed in his daily walk on Sauk Mountain Road when a vehicle suddenly appears beside him. The attractive female driver shows him her DEA badge and wonders if she can take a moment of his time. Lange is surprised. "What in the world is the DEA doing all the way out here, in the middle of nowhere?" he asks."The middle of nowhere is where small planes like to drop drugs they've flown in from Canada," she answers. Which reminds Lange of a noise he heard recently in the early morning and a disturbance he saw on the hillside above some wild blackberries. But when he takes the DEA agent down the abandoned logging road to the hillside in question, they discover something even more troubling than drugs hidden among the blackberries.