Cold Case at Cobra Creek. Rita Herron

did you check out Lewis’s financial background?”

      Bates frowned. “I was going to, but then he had that crash and I figured there wasn’t no need.”

      “Was he working with a partner? Another contact to deal with on the project?”

      “If he was, he didn’t tell me.”

      Probably because he was running a scam. Lewis had never had backing and was going to swindle the locals into investing, then run off with their money.

      Had one of them discovered Lewis’s plans to cheat him and killed Lewis because of it?