The Girl in the Manor (Emma Griffin FBI Mystery Book 3)

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Mary noticed the man as soon as he walked into the bus station. There was something about him that didn’t look like he fit in with the rest of the people milling around the cavernous open space. She couldn’t put her finger on what it was. The passengers, families, and friends gathering at the different gates, waiting in the rows of metal chairs, and moving in and out of the bank of glass doors along the front of the building covered a full range of people. Like a microcosm of the city around them. Suits and sleek satchels, jeans and baggy t-shirts, grungy backpacks sitting beside expensive matching luggage. All kinds of passengers took advantage of the fleet of buses that traveled from the city hub. He didn’t stand out against them.

Yet, she couldn’t take her eyes off him. There was something about him. Something that wouldn’t let go of her attention. But Mary didn’t know if that was a good thing or a bad one. She watched him walk into the station and waited for him to glance around in that way most people do when they come into a crowded space like the station. Even when they know where they are and where they are going, most people take a few seconds to evaluate their surroundings. But not this man. He walked in and kept his eyes locked directly ahead of him. He didn’t even seem to notice the people moving around him as he crossed the high shine-polished linoleum floor. Rather than him navigating around people and finding his path, the crowd parted for him and his determined stride.

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