Detective Rage Mysteries Series

Janette Wanda Rage was raised in a small Idaho farming community. Her three older brothers all married and moved back onto the farm. Graduating from college, Janette moves to Seattle to seek her new life. The Seattle police department hires her as a police cadet. After months of training at the police academy she becomes a patrolman. Her farm growing up is very useful in police work. The hours of hunting and shooting places her high in marksmanship and physical conditioning. She is assigned a Sergeant as her supervisor in the field. She gains experience in patrolling and general police work. She has yet to be allowed to drive when on patrol. A fast food store is held up and they see the suspects fleeing the scene. The Sergeant chases one suspect down while Rage goes after the other two. She arrests the two she is chasing but the Sergeant is shot. Rage returns and runs down the shooter. The three gang members go to jail but the 13th Street Gang wants revenge. They plot the demise of Patrolman Rage, but she kills six of them. Their first attempt failed but they vow they will not fail the second time. The next attempt will be on Rage and the entire police department.

Rage is made a temporary sergeant. A failed kidnaping and Rage hides the victim from everyone. The FBI tries to take the case, but Rage will not budge. Some FBI agents tries to get the Chief of Police to give them the victim. They club the Chief in his office and flee when they are found to be fake. In the Mayan jungle three women discover three 12-sided crystals in a temple. They will steal and take them to Missouri to study. The crystals arrive in Seattle hid in a container. It is stolen when a nuclear bomb threatens to destroy Seattle. The Seattle people are only told of a possible large explosion but to stay indoors. A huge mushroom cloud and fireball erupts over south Seattle. An air force fighter reports the explosion to be a megaton in power. The women get the crystals out of Seattle to Far West, Missouri during the explosion. In a penthouse in Joplin, Missouri the crystals are joined and aligned to the earth’s magnetic lines. A large glob of light appears in the penthouse. A strange message is conveyed concerning the Mayan tree of life and its orientation. The Madam leaves her office, ‘not every venture turns a profit.’

A VIP is coming to town. Rage must guard a back wall and Jones is guarding three garbage cans on 12-hour shifts for the FBI. They eat at a place they would never go to. A car load of hold-up men hit the café. Rage gets three in the café and Jones is almost shot in the outside kitchen doorway. Their car is damaged, and they fight to the end. The FBI and Inspector Strong feel the attack on them was of their VIP guarding. The FBI in DC bring them in to review all FBI security for the VIP’s visit. Local FBI are not happy with non-FBI in their procedures. When the attempt is made on the VIP, Rage and Jones have plans of their own There are several different people besides the FBI looking for the VIP. Some where there is a mole or two? Truckloads of FBI agents arrive in Seattle. Rage gets some unexpected help to dig out those responsible which will get the FBI out of town as quickly as possible. A Nunnery and a Standing Bear all assist in the case until the VIP is safe.

The Chief of Police decides to swap detectives for cross training. Rage goes to Robbery and Williams goes to Homicide. Rage must lock up her Colt, and the constant phone ringing drives her crazy. Where she come from a call means someone died. Home break-ins are seven in number and Rage might have a pattern. She writes the pattern for the next night and turns it in. It is ignored. When the Robbery Captain learns of six locations they knew were going to be robbed and nothing was done; he is not happy. Rage tells the Captain, “They are done and moved off to something bigger.” Rage is handed several dry-cleaning robberies. A total of 28 outfits are taken, nothing more. Rage wonders how the electronic equipment taken could be changed to sell at full value? She goes to a factory. She learns of flux made of silver is needed to fake the equipment as new. Williams has a 4 am shooting call out. He can’t believe the hand-written details the Inspector expects in two hours. The men shot had flux and glass on their shoes. No one ties these facts together. The Inspector is waiting for the other shoe to drop in his investigation. But, his other shoe is in Robbery. Help to solve the shoe and shooting cases come from an unknown source.

Inspector Strong takes a vacation away from everything with Mildred his wife. Returning to his truck, after fishing, he spots a body near a snag. He rushes to push the body into an eddy until he can retrieve it. A make shift hook brings the body to shore. A forest ranger helps get it into the truck and the Inspector drives it to the lodge. Overnight the body and evidence are taken from the cooler before the sheriff arrives. The sheriff is at a dead end. A just married couple and her father are on a vacation. The red head is Penelope and her husband is Stan. The father of the bride is called daddy Smith. Stan has one drawer for his clothes and sleeps on the sofa. Stan goes fishing with Inspector Strong and they scout possible murder sites. The Inspector wishes to leave, and someone tries to sabotage some wires in his truck. He now must stay until the truck is checked out for being safe. Penelope (Detective Rage) roughs up a jewelry thief. Stan (patrolman Jones) is set as bait to catch the killers. How does the FBI get involved?

A five century storm hits Seattle. Inspector Strong and Ted can’t help but go fishing go fishing. The fishing will be the best in 75 years. The storm floods the south end of Seattle with feet of water. Jones is out driving a ‘duck’ rescuing people for days. The police station is leaking like a sieve. Rage picks up two floating bodies because her jeep can almost swim. The victim’s driver’s license says he is David Smith. Running his license number, it turns out to be Detective’s Smith license but with the victim’s picture. It gets worse. Smith’s police ID has the victim’s face on it. Rage checks hers license and police ID. The numbers are correct, but the pictures are wrong. It has the second victim’s picture on hers. Every photo ID has the wrong face on them. What have people been using their police IDs for? The Detectives Smith and Rage reason, ‘any local police know us by sight but with our reputation the ID would be enough. All the time the rain continues to come down, the city floods, and the police building leaks. But the fishing trip is the very best. A newspaper article reports a murder in Forks, days before the storm. A call to the local Fork’s sheriff has the fake ID being used to check the belongings of the victim. The FBI finally discovers who all three victims are. Why are Smith and Rage pulling an entire phone system out of a medical research firm? The fishing was great.

Walking Dog, a member of the Go-Shoot Nation is found murdered off the reservation. They don’t want the FBI involved. Inspector Strong is given the case. The Inspector must have the local police agency give him the case which they are happy to do. The Chief of the Go-Shoot Nation in their first meeting fails to give the Inspector the victim’s name or any evidence from his house. It takes a day before the Inspector is given the phone number of their police chief. The victim’s job was to be the gopher for the Chief and Council. He had no authority in any matters. Rage finds evidence that the body was moved off the tribal lands. The victim’s last assignment was completed a month ago. He was carrying papers between the Nation, the Railroad, and the builders of the fence around the Nation. After the fence was completed, he did go into the forest for some reason. Rage and patrolman Jones starts a walk in the forest at the place he started at. They have nothing specific they are looking for. In the forest they are attacked and chased by armed men with machineguns. The investigation uncovers Walking Dog’s love of old maps and books of the west. They were given no such material in any of the boxes from his house. What does that mean? Will Detective Rage be putting any pencils in the ceiling during this case?

At a deep well test site, a Company man turns the experimental earthquake equipment on while the designer was encouraged to take a vacation. But he cannot turn it off. They first feared she will tell all she knows about their project. However, the entire west coast is now shaking, Mt. Saint Helen’s type quaking. Some people fear a volcano in Seattle and other places along the west coast They hope she can fix what they did. They try snatch her and return her back to the test site. Their four kidnapers sent to return her are all killed. They try several more times and the total go to 15 dead. Their kidnap car was stolen in NYC but traveled only 100 miles to Seattle. The FBI and Inspector Strong know who will ship a car for one job, but they deny everything. The powers back in DC decide she must be removed permanently. They change their minds and try to call off the hit but can’t reach anyone. The Inspector’s team and the kidnapping victim have a running gun battle ending up in the tunnels under Seattle. Will the secret quake project ever become exposed and can they be controlled?

Homicide Detective Rage is 4 days new on the job and there is a multiply shooting at a Mall in Seattle. Four are dead and it is unclear who shot who. The 4 victims all carry valid but fake IDs. What is non-evidence? Will they stay buried? The Coroner has a meeting to show the detectives the victim’s unusual suits. Rage finds the stitching in the suits are of ancient Chinese Imperial origin only for the royal family. After the case was placed in the ‘cold file case’, why were the 4 victims dug up after the city buried them? Did they find what they were looking for? The Chief of Police, the Inspector’s team, the Coroner, and their wives are hiding from everyone. All their friends and relatives are placed into police stations and barricaded in. The Chief threaten everyone they will tell all to the world unless someone tells them what is going on. Will the Security Council send in the Marines for the Chief of Police and Inspector Strong if they can find them or will they use the marines on someone else? The President gets involved can he resolve the situation before the Chief goes public?

Rage is running as usual every morning. The Inspector calls her and tells her Jones was shot. Rage rushes to the hospital where the Inspector says he did not make it. Rage is in a daze and sent home to change and eat. The Inspector knows he can’t keep her off the case, so he uses her. The Inspector says when it is time he will take Rage to see the body. He was ID by his Seal’s documentation. He was shot near the locks while covering a shift for a friend. The Inspector takes Rage home with him for several days. The case goes no place, but someone is searching Jones’ apartment. Why? Rage tears the apartment apart looking for what he hid. A Lieutenant from the army tries to help decode the message Rage found from Jones but can’t. How does this relate to the speed trap ticket Rage got months ago? Who is playing both ends against the middle? Will the Go Shoot Nation be looking for scalps, before this is over? Who is the third party in this affair?

Homicide detective Rage is hiking alone on Mount Rainier. She is on a seldom traveled path, in the ice, snow, and has seen no one. She hears pop, pop. It makes her nervous. At her camp she sets it up and sleeps away from it. Someone shoots up her camp and takes all her supplies. But she hid some like a good Seal. She goes across the glacier and starts down. It takes several days, and she is listed as missing. The Colonel and officer Jones find her. Her car was rigged to blow when driven but discovered. The Colonel finds a small but strong heat source on the mountain where Rage might have heard shots. it melts when they take it to study. Jones finds similar devices all over the world, they are talking to each other. While they all try to discover the shooters, someone is buying coal power plants, working or not. A dark-head beauty in a Seattle Penthouse has charts of every power plant in the Americans and their ability to generate. A magnet pulse from deep space pass through the earth and sun. In response the sun sends out a massive solar flare. Some nations heed the warning with only minutes to react. The Madam in the Penthouse is the only game in town and has power to sell.

Mr. and Mrs. Black are enjoying two weeks in Mexico. In Seattle, their maid finds the three rooms upstairs are torn apart, furniture broken apart, the rugs pulled up and cut into strips, the light fixtures torn from the ceiling, the sink and toilet broken apart into the tub. A body of a man is barely seen in the bedroom before the maid runs screaming in tears. The plastic cards, many with photos still on the body, identifies him as Mr. Black. At Mr. Black’s business, B/W, they find full sized pictures of Mr. Black on several walls. A business associate identifies the body as Mr. Black. The wife is contacted in Mexico, she is still expecting her husband to return the next day from fishing. It will be a day before she can return to Seattle. Detective Rage researches all commercial and private jets from Mexico to Seattle. There is no way Mr. Black could have returned home from the last time he was seen in Mexico. Mrs. Black faints at the sight of his body. Her only words are, “That is not my husband, what have you done with him?” The bigger questions are no long who murdered Mr. Black, but where is Mr. Black? Who has been murdered in Mr. Black’s house? Why was he impersonating Mr. Black at his company?

While the Inspector and FBI agent Ted are in their hideout fishing store fishing store, three men hold it up. Value taken is under $1000. They steal everything in the glass counters, at the front of the store. Several hours later a similar layout is robbed of $250,000 of jewelry in Portland. The Seattle store was practice? The three men are found dead in a large walk-in safe for no reason. Was the real target the fishing store and what is under the glass? How can a UW mathematician help solve either case with prime numbers? How many other safes are in danger from being open with no alarms being given? Is trying to tail a suspect in a town of one-way streets easy when he j-walks and changes direction in a second?

A month-long storm has Snoqualmie Pass near Seattle chocked with snow. Snow slides are burying both east and west bound lanes. Traffic in both directions has been halted for hours. Two 12-foot wide snow blowers are working on a snow face 15-feet tall, a mile long, and still the snow falls. The operator powers down the machine. He has almost cut up a body in the blades. They can’t continue until the body is removed. The State passes the case over to Inspector Strong’s team. Jones measure and sets a flag in the slide. He warns the blowers where to slow down and another body is removed before the blades find it. The State says, “Clear the roadway, anyway. There are likely no more bodies.” Back in Seattle neither the police or the FBI can ID the victims. The Coroner says they were frozen to death, but near 200 degrees below zero. Why dump the bodies in the mountains? Checking shows no flight plans any place because of the storm. The two bodies are taken by force from the morgue, but Rage and Jones remove two of the intruders. The Strong team must find a facility large enough for a man to fit in and can create 200 degrees below zero.

A complex plan is executed to fire fake shots all around the city. All the time testing the police’s ability to respond. As Inspector Strong would put it, “When is the next shoe going to drop.” All officers are in every car the police have. They even use private vehicles and single drivers as much coverage as possible. A huge part, of the city’s power go black, banks are held up and shots are fired. Was it a ploy to isolate Jones and Rage? They are off the case. A kidnapping occurs and every means of travel to Seattle is filled with FBI agents. The Madam in her multi-million Penthouse overlooking Seattle is unhappy, “Find those responsible for this and make sure someone stumbles into them and the money is retrurned. I want this resolved now.”

An urban legend has Alligators in Green Lake, which is near downtown Seattle. A pet alligator either escaped or was set free in the lake. While having never been seen, it still accounts for all the missing pets in north Seattle. Rage and Jones are having a sunny outing at the lake when a mother screams, “It has my baby.” Jones is in the water while Rage is getting more information. She enters the water, swimming out to where Jones again comes to the surface. They conduct a Seal search pattern and Jones finds the little girl. They work on her until she starts to breathe. The little girl has strange marks on her face and legs, but not teeth marks. They go to the hospital and the little girl is fine. They both wonder what is going on? Inspector Strong agrees they can guard the mother and child for the night. Early the next morning someone tries to kidnap the little girl. Rage changes clothes with the man trying to snatch the little girl, after Jones knocks him out. A gun battle erupts in the garage and Rage removes two from the battle, but they escape. The Inspector wishes to take all the medical records of the little girl and mother into protective custody. Will this help figure out what is going on?

The insurance companies are lost vast sums of money on disasters. The policies are bought just before the disasters. Going to lunch, Jones is being followed and Rage captures the tail. At lunch after the tail in known, Jones re-ups for a special mission and Rage can’t come. On his mission, he has no idea why they dug a shallow trench and fill it in. He returns safely home after a few weeks. Several more people watch Jones after the mission. Rage takes both out and puts them in jail. Several try to take the prisoners with fancy government papers. They all end up in jail for a brief time. How can someone predict earthquakes, floods and so on? It appears they have, and the insurance companies are losing money fast. Why does drilling for steam find the temperature decrease many miles into the earth and then raises again deeper. Why was the foreman murdered of this drilling rig? How can this be tied to the new HD TVs? Digital and analog signals are different. The Madam from the Penthouse must visit a venture and set it straight, while keeping Rage out of the picture.

Detective Smith is on vacation. Detective Rage with the Inspector investigate two deaths in a UW four story frat house. Two boys, a junior and a freshman are found in the frat’s elevator dead covered in blood. The blood is from the freshman. The cause of death can’t be found by either the Inspector’s people or the UW medical team. The old frat house has a secret room with access through the elevator shaft when it is not in the basement. The two boys never have anything in common but where they stay. The freshman is in a wheelchair and has a room on the first floor. Rage brings Jones under cover as a football prospect to see what goes on in the frat house. Some rare metals and chemical salts are later found in the freshman’s blood. But the levels are such he had to have been exposed to them as a junior in high school. Federal agencies are involved with the material found. The UW team finds the blood covering both victims is the freshman’s blood, but it is over 3 weeks old. How does the Madam fit in to all of this?

Patrolman Jones needs some nursing after being shot on duty. Detective Rage has a murder of a maid in the old, old money area of Delridge in Seattle. The case has her stimmed. Researching the old case files, she finds two other murders 23 years apart on the same day of the month at the Andover mansion. Jones is home recovering and uses his computer to find another murder in 1881, same day of the month from newspaper files. This was the year the Andover mansion was being built. How many more murders are hidden in the old, dusty files? Do they follow the 23-year cycle, and all be on the same day? Will Jones be able to tie the victims altogether where none are Andover family members. But first he suggests a ghost or a curse on the house. Will any judge permit Rage to dig up all the victims and the old Andover members to test for DNA?

Rage and Jones are driving an unmarked FBI car back home after an undercover assignment. Going to buy gas, Rage runs into a speed trap. She refuses to pay at the scene and ends up before a Judge. Her and Jones still use the FBI undercover id’s. She forces the judge to get a recorder, a prosecutor, a jury, and witnesses. The small town of Dugway has a secret within its miles of metal mines and they want no outsiders in town for a time. The Judge trumps up some charges to hold them for six days, until the deal is closed. Rage gets word to the FBI and they storm the town and finds no one in it. They find no entrances as shown on their maps into the mines. Every wire in the electrical panels has been removed and taken. The FBI finds Rage and Jones in the tunnels from a trap door in the jail where they were locked up. But no town’s people. The air in the tunnels is becoming bad as the FBI tries to search them. The FBI reasons, it was a drug operation they were shutting down. In the tunnels they find 65,000 small compartments bolted to the walls, they go on for over a mile. All the power into the tunnels was conditioned to be near perfect. Find the people and understand what is going on.

A call goes into the police call center in Seattle. “Sir, you want to report six stolen cars. They were take from your lot, this weekend. I will transfer you to Auto Theft.” In Auto Theft, “Sir, I will send a car down to take the report.” Later the same day patrolman Jones arrives at the address he was given. He pulls into a Junk yard. There are rows after rows of junk cars piled six high as he walks to the trailer in the middle of the yard. “Sir, you wish to report six stolen cars?” “Yes, they took six right out of the stacks.” Jones fills out the paperwork and leaves. Later he mentions to Homicide Detective Rage the stolen Junker cars. She mentions it to Inspector Strong before she leaves for home. The next day, the Inspector mentions it in a Chief’s meeting, which brings a chuckle from everyone. But the Robbery Chief mentions it to his Major. Pass experience has proven that if Inspector Strong mentions anything it is important. The Major will follow up. He finds Junker cars are being stolen all over town, many are not reported. The Inspector mentions the Junker cars to the FBI Director, “Inspector, I have seen reports from the West Coast that everyone is having a rash of stolen Junker cars.” The first question asks is, “How much flooding can you control with Junkers?” The second one is, “What is going on?”

Rage takes Jones to pickup a prisoner from the FBI at the airport in Seattle. Some people might have misunderstood the discuss between Jones and Rage about her twins. A gun battle ensues, five attackers die, and two prisoners escape by a small fast Lear jet. HLS and TSA want to protect their backside from the mess at the airport. Rage tells it like it was. A big-time drug dealer and a very small southern boot legger were the ones that escaped. Who would want the boot legger? The drug dealer jumped a $2-million bail. The bounty hunter was paid for the two prisoners in the South, rode the plane to Seattle, and now wants the additional reward to get them back. The boot legger is drugged and questioned for days to learn his secret of his moon shine he has back in the hills. “I will die before I give up the family recipe for our moon shine.” Ted, of the FBI has moon-shine sippen whisky flown in just for him. What will the tests show? Both prisoners show up in Spokane and are taken into custody. The drug dealer has a truck full of lawyers. The boot legger has the FBI apologies to a southern judge. They took him into custody for his own safety. He did not jump bail. A private 575 jet leaves Seattle for a trip down under. It is the start of another money-making venture. The price of all whisky goes up.

Rage had an adventure in buying a new vehicle. She stopped at many dealers and was under the car looking how to weld a box into the frame. One dealer thought she was smuggling drugs. Rage is out showing Jones her new Jeep when they stop a drunk driver. But the man at the wheel is a shooting victim. Jones goes back on the Strong’s team to help investigate the shooting. They are soon having wedding pictures taken and plans for the nuptials. Jones becomes concerned that Rage is enjoying the assignment too much. She is planning for a real wedding. Inspector Strong is working at the front desk of the hotel they are staying at. He talks to the shooting victim and then ‘The Secretary’ that was trying to plant an agent in the wedding business. Just how far will Rage have to go in this wedding and what of the Atomic company investigating alternative power. There could be billions involved in this case.

The Madam’s 757 wings to down-under, returning with $400 million to open a tidal plant on the Washington coast. Skin divers are pulled up dead by a fishing boat near Oregon. The Navy takes the two bodies and wants to cover up the incident. A missing person report has officer Jones at the diver’s house and finds three men trying to haul off everything. They are thrown in jail. The Navy admits and asks for help. The dead divers had equipment the Navy did not think was known. The investigation leads miles up the coast to the only plant nearby. Rage and Jones try to get close to the tidal generating power plant. They are hauled out of the water and sent back home. The Madam sees Rage and speeds up whatever she has going on. The case is cold after the plant closes and lays everyone off. The government and eco-group were happy until they were sued, and all the locals lose their jobs. The plant proves what is needed; truck after truck leaves the building. In a Near East Kingdom the Madam meets with the King and Crown Prince. She is not welcome by the Prince, but his father is wise. “Son, if the twig does not bend it will never be a tree. Our people need what she has.” Rage finds a clue and has court orders to search the plant. What do they find?

The Police Academy finally gets Inspector Strong into a one-day presentation of his choosing. The Chief of Police is surprised but happy. It will be for a wide range of staff from police Chiefs to clerks. The attendees will be there on time or get locked out. Dress properly or get locked out. A few who do not follow the rules are made to wait. The Inspector walks on stage and throws the official report in the trash can to start fresh. The Greenwood shooting, known as the Music Case is reviewed from the time of the first call. Many whys are asked, and the Inspector expects those in the seminar to take what was found and solve the case just as his detectives did. There were witness, crowd control issues, family members, and one dead music teacher all to handle. It is a treat as Detective Rage leads part of the seminar. Detective Smith has his share. At the end of the seminar each attendee will have their own case file on their lap. The case appears to be going into the cold case file for all those in the seminar. The Chiefs know a suspect was arrested. How was it closed from what is in their booklet and the discussions?

Detective Rage buys a storage locker at an auction. She has officer Jones bring his truck and some extra folding money. She instructs him on how and when to bid with her by twirling her hair. A locker comes up and with some bidding Jones wins the auction. The fellow that lost tries to buy the locker after he gets some more money. Jones tells him, “No thanks.” His reply is “You will be sorry.’ Rage takes with her an oil painting, four canes, and two small wooden boxes from the locker. After loading the truck, they start for Rage’s home. A big truck cuts Jones off, so he is no longer following Rage. He calls Rage on the police radio to tell her of the incident and to be careful. Dispatch radios Jones with the information that the truck was just reported stolen. Jones is now three stop lights behind Rage. Rage has watched a truck following her, even after she takes the long way home. They try to push her jeep off the road, but she fishtails them. There erupts a gun battle with Rage. Jones gives the truck slowing him down a hard push. The driver flips the truck and it burst into flames. In the police Lab. they unload Jones’ truck and search the storage locker’s items, finding nothing of real value. They must have only wanted what Rage had with her. A jeweler says the value of the jewelry in the two boxes is worth $2,500. The green emeralds in one box are huge, but the value is truly little. The oil painting, she has may have a hidden picture covered up. The four canes are wooden and worth little. What leads the pair to Iceland looking for a great treasure?

A young engineer had assisted in the demolition of the old City Hall in Seattle. He took most of the transit readings as it was torn down. All that is left is a huge hole. He made a final visit before his next job outside of the USA. A day later, on the same high rise where the transit readings were taken; a body is found torn apart by a large air conditioning unit. Inspector Strong sends his team to investigate the death. With cameras and logins every person is accounted for that went to the roof for the previous week. The young engineer is seen on camera boarding a plane to leave. Rage and Jones walk the entire roof, finding the transit’s marks. The young engineer gave his transit and box to the building engineer when he left the last time. All his readings are taken to the UW to see if they can understand them. A hit man is killed trying to murder Detective Rage. She and Jones go into hiding in the most expensive hotel in the city. They request whipping cream, honey, heaters, card-board, and miles of string. Can they figure out the transit’s readings and what they mean now that the building is down? Why is a Federal Judge threating to take control of city government if action is not taken?

Rage returns home from vacation. She is still upset about a peck on her cheek Jones gave her when she left. He has not thought about it since. Jones has found a new chicken place to eat, The Chicken Coop. It is the cheapest around and he and Rage go there after their Saturday shooting. Rage must admit it is good. But she wonders as a farm girl, how can they sell so cheap and stay in business. Jones puts it over to gaining market share. Their prices do raise some over time. How can chicken production increase so fast that they forecast the need for 100 more Chicken Coop store in just months. Beyond that in months the number of stores is unbelievable. A shooting near a Coop goes into the cold file to be reviewed later. Over night the three Chicken Coop stores are bulldozed and hauled to the dump? All the employees are given eight weeks pay. Robbery helps solve the shooting, but Jones has no Coop to go too. Is this all there is?

Rage takes her first vacation back home. Jones laid a peck on her cheek when she left. She is having a problem with it being so unexpected. At home Granny Jane is wondering about a bow for Janette. The sheriff has a death from cattle rustling that has been going on for a time. He asks Janette for help. It appears the rustlers were after two prize bulls. Old man Smith is shot twice with the same gun, likely not an accident. No one seems to know anything, and the beef is not showing up within 100 miles. The state police take a week to review the file, adds nothing but rustling. Janette discovers the south valley was a central hub for the old missile trains. It was top secret, moved down to classified and for some reason not de-classified per procedures. The land is used by many to graze cattle. It is assumed to be all government owned, why ask and have them fence it off. Rage will need more help than just the single sheriff when the rustlers send in several truckloads of men. They want much more than just the cattle.

Patrolman Rage is nearing five years on the force. What does she want, Sergeant’s strips or a Detective’s shield? A woman Lieutenant is offering options. The FBI is hunting bank robbers heading toward Seattle. Rage’s opinion is they will never catch them. She offers where they might go. The FBI thinks she is reading their play book. She meets the new FBI Director for Seattle, Ted McClearly. Seattle Robbery has someone stealing lady’s dresses by the hundreds. Rage visits a clothing store and feels they could be next. As a patrolman she tells her Sergeant, but he will not pass it up the line as the next possible robbery. The store loses hundreds of dresses. Rage is permitted to talk with robbery directly about another possible robbery, but they wait too long, and another store is robbed. The Chief of Police is not happy they had them twice and did nothing. But the robberies stop after 15,000 dresses are taken. The dresses are processed, and most are shipped to China. What is left of the dresses finds its way to a sheik. The ‘Madam’ running the venture buys a Boeing 757 and a penthouse in Seattle with a credit card. She moves her operation to Seattle. She now has three assistants; Solviegn, Briallen, My-Ling.