This short story takes place over three different timeframes, December 19th -20th, Christmas and Christmas Eve, and Sping of the next year. On December 19th-20th a girl goes missing and a police woman finds her naked and dead. She finds the murderer the same day and ties him up. She also desposes of the girls body in a quarry to try to make it look like a accident. Christmas (Eve) time the murderer is still alive and Helen (policewoman) is keeping him alive and figuring out what to do. She ends up hitting him with her gun then shooting him through the scull with a shotgun to make it look like a suicide. In the following summer a huge flood comes and she is saving people then she falls out of her boat and has to stay on a tree for a day. She gets saved and is told they found a body, she thinks it is the girl but it's another person and she ends in a hysterical state bawling.
She tries to cover up the murder because it is very grevious for a small town. The girl was always a good girl so she didn't want to break the mothers heart by telling her. I think the girls body will never show up and that family will never get the closure they deserve. Although Helen means well she should have just told she had found the body and got it over with and the man spends life in prison. The book was predictable because I guessed the coverup and the death after like 2 pages. It was still a great short story.
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