Brian Thomas

The Closer Bell — Case 40: The Dinner Bell

Story 12 of 12 · Starts on page 164

A 4:40 a.m. call from the widow of an Army buddy sends eighty-year-old Gus Bell, his daughter Lee and Mildred from Savannah to a Wyoming ranch, where ninety-one GPS-collared cattle have vanished through a gap in a virtual fence and an AI blames lions. Mildred reads the collar logs, Gus rides a horse up Sheep Creek, and two AIs that were never asked why give up a rustler with a laptop and a running iron.

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