Bill Hopkins - Judge Rosswell Carew 02 - River Mourn (33 page)

“What did the message say?”

“It was for you. It had your name on it. Judge
Rosswell Carew.”

Rosswell shot straight up, his attention now fully
riveted on the woman’s voice. “What did it say?”

“The message?”

“Yes, Muriel. What did the message say?”

“It was one sentence.”

“What was the sentence, Muriel?”

“A short sentence.”

“What did it say?”

“Only two words.”

“Muriel, what two words?”

“And then it was signed.”

“Muriel, listen carefully to me. Read me the sentence.”

“Okay. It says, ‘I’m watching.’ ”

A migraine that had been hiding in his brain crept out
to see what all the excitement was about. On the way to the front of Rosswell’s
head, it kicked the back of his eyeballs and sent a memo to his stomach that vomit
time was near. Bright lights flashed around his eyes.

“Now, Muriel, are you listening?”

“Certainly.”

“How was it signed?”

“A name.”

“What name?”

“First and last name.”

“What name, Muriel?”

“Nathaniel Dahlbert.”

The End

About the author

Bill Hopkins

Bill Hopkins is
retired after beginning
his legal career in 1971 and serving as a
private attorney, prosecuting attorney, an administrative law judge, and a
trial court judge, all in Missouri.

Courting Murder
,
the first book in the
Judge Rosswell Carew Mystery Series, is available at Amazon, Smashwords, and
Barnes & Noble. When Judge Rosswell Carew makes the gruesome discovery of
two corpses on a river bank in the Missouri Ozarks, he’s plunged into a storm
of deadly secrets that threaten both him and his fiancée, Tina Parkmore.
Unsatisfied with the way the authorities are conducting the investigation,
Rosswell, who’s always nurtured a secret desire to be a detective, teams up
with an ex-con, Ollie Groton, to solve the case before the killer can murder
again. Rosswell uncovers a maze of crimes so tangled that he must fight his way
to a solution or die trying. 
http://tinyurl.com/Bill-Hopkins-Courting-Murder

Bloody Earth
,
coming in 2014, is the
third book in the series. Judge Rosswell Carew witnesses the death of a friend.
Is it an accident or murder? And if murder, why? Even though threatened with
his life, Rosswell must find the answer for reasons he never knew existed!

Bill has published
non-fiction, poetry, and fiction in several periodicals. He is a member of The
Dramatists Guild of America, Missouri Writers Guild, and SEMO Writers Guild. He
is also a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Horror Writers Association.

A book of collected
poetry,
Moving
into Forever: Poems from a Lifetime
,
is available on Amazon.
http://tinyurl.com/Bill-Hopkins-MovingIntoForever

He wrote his first play
when he was sixty-one years old.
Cotton Lesson
was a finalist in Saint
Louis’s First Run Theatre’s 2007 playwriting contest
.
The Almond
Checkmate
was his first produced play.

Bill is also a
professional photographer and has had his works displayed in Canada, Mexico,
Europe, and the United States.

Bill lives in Marble Hill,
Missouri with his wife, Sharon Woods Hopkins, also a writer.

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Bill
Hopkins

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Hopkins

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Gregg Hopkins
and The Melroys

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Courting Murder

(at)Amazon.com

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Writes Publishing

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