2 Still Life in Brunswick Stew by Larissa Reinhart

Author:Larissa Reinhart
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, humor, cozy, cozy mystery, southern mystery, humorous mystery, mystery series
Publisher: Henery Press
Published: 2013-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Casey flounced on the couch, knocking the magazine to the floor. “Amy, Amy, Amy. I’m about sick to death of Amy and I’ve never met her.”

“God Almighty, Casey. Would you grow up already?” However, if Casey and Cody were kicked out, that meant they might move in with me. I internalized my shudder.

“You’re one to talk. What are you wearing anyway? You lost a button on your flip-flop, too. Looks uneven.”

“I’m wearing this in support of Eloise and her love of Uga the dog. She was proud of her Georgia Bulldogs.”

Casey frowned. “Sorry. I forgot about Eloise. Did Uncle Will figure out what happened yet?”

“No. Mr. Parker is beside himself. He’s not getting any answers, so I thought I’d help him out.”

“Just how are you doing that?”

“Asking around. I know a handful of people who got sick and a handful of people who didn’t. I’m trying to see if it was the stew or Griffin’s Genuine Juice which had arsenic in it.” I tapped my head. “Deductive reasoning. Can’t be that hard.”

Casey squinted at me. “You think the police can’t come up with that? What does Deputy Lover Boy think about you questioning folks?”

I chewed a nail and inspected the damage. “I am not going to tell him. He’s not thrilled with me interfering in what he believes is police business.”

I looked up. Casey had folded her arms, giving me her big sister stare down.

“Casey, you gotta understand. The Parkers don’t have much except for their girls. Eloise was the only one in the history of their family who went to college, and although they don’t know much about art, they know how talented she is. Was. And they were so proud she came back to Sidewinder to teach, when she really could have gone anywhere. It caused them so much pain to see her disease hurt and whittle her away to nothing. And then to lose her like this?”

“You know we’re proud of you, too, for going to college and for your painting. We appreciate you coming back to Halo when you could’ve stayed in Savannah or moved to Atlanta or somewhere.”

I rolled my eyes. “This isn’t about me. This is about Eloise getting her life snuffed out early. It’s not like her disease would have taken her. The Parkers want justice.”

“Okay, there are no similarities between you and Eloise. This is about your need to right a wrong.”

“Stop trying to make this about me. There is a chance that this poisoning was not an accident. Nor some psycho who wanted to see a bunch of people toss cookies at a festival and get his name in the paper.”

“Eew.” Casey curled her lip. “Thanks for that image. You think someone murdered Eloise?”

“Her musclehead boyfriend, Griffin Ward, thought he could cure her with his health drinks and it wasn’t working. He was also a jealous sonofabitch who threatened to beat the tar out of me for interfering.”

“Why would he kill her?”

“Maybe he didn’t mean to kill her. Maybe he was just trying to make her feel sick so she would try his remedy in desperation.

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