A Bite of Murder by Carolyn Q Hunter

Author:Carolyn Q Hunter [Hunter, Carolyn Q]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2018-06-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

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After retreating to her apartment for a while and hopping online, Anna was able to track down an address for William Percy. While he was a man in his late forties, he was pretty active on social media as well, mostly updating followers about where he was going to be that week. Being a trucker, he was often not in town. He spent weeks at a time on the road, hauling merchandise across the country to various states.

It became apparent that he was a private trucker. He took commissions and jobs from various contract employers instead of working for one specific trucking company. He could be traveling anywhere at any time—always on a different route.

This kind of job also meant he owned his own truck to haul the various loads. Anna had to silently admire the type of work ethic, time, and dedication such a difficult job might present. It was much harder than her own job helping to manage that drive-in theater with her sister and Valerie.

Speaking of which, she realized that she would probably be in for a scolding later that day from Valerie for not being there all morning to help with the set up of that night’s vampire flick—Dance of the Vampire Brides.

While she still wasn’t overly excited to see this next movie, she did like the idea of the vampires being women in this one instead of a man. However, she wasn’t holding her breath. She was sure it would be just a cheesy and over the top as the last ones.

“You’ve got the address. Are we ready to go?” Harlem asked, floating back and forth in the tiny apartment with impatience.

Anna had seen tigers pacing back and forth, but this was something new. She couldn’t help but chuckle at him.

“What is so funny?”

“You. You’re just raring to go.”

“Yes, I’m getting anxious to figure this out.”

Anna scrunched her eyebrows together. “Oh? Why is that? This isn’t any different than some of the other murder cases we’ve faced.”

“That’s just it. The other cases we’ve helped solve always have something paranormal involved.”

“Well, yeah. If you’re helping to do some snooping, of course, there is,” she joked.

He stopped his pacing and looked down at her unamused. “You know what I mean.”

“Yeah, yeah. I’m just trying to keep things light-hearted, you know?”

“What about you? Why are you so laid back about this case? You’re usually chomping at the bit, either to get the case solved or to get your sister uninvolved.”

Anna sighed. It was true. Seeing Belle get all mixed up in dangerous and supernatural events around Sunken Grove bothered her. She’d spent part of Belle’s teenage years caring for her sister after their parents died. She was overprotective in some ways. Wanting to stop her from getting mixed up in murder . . . and potentially worse situations . . . was almost a knee-jerk response.

However, this time around Belle was laid up sick in bed. Despite having gone out that morning to do some investigating, she just didn’t have the energy to keep going.

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