A Crazy Cat Lady and Canine Crunchies (Nosy Newfie Cozy Mysteries Book 2) by Baxter Aleksa

Author:Baxter, Aleksa [Baxter, Aleksa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

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The next day at the café was a busy one, so Jamie was stuck in the kitchen all day leaving me and our new assistant to manage the customers.

Honestly, given my skills at customer service I should've been the one doing the cooking, but thanks to the Baker Valley Gazette word had spread that I'd been taken in for questioning in the death of Janice Fletcher and everyone who could manage it had come by to poke and prod and figure out why that might be.

Seeing as I didn't really want to admit that I'd seen someone dead at the bottom of a set of stairs and then walked away, I stuck to no comment as much as I possibly could, but man, people in a small town. News travels fast. They knew about five times what the article said and about twice what the police had.

Martin Parks—the owner of the local pizzeria whose wife Gloria had accused me of trying to tempt the men of the town with my free goodies—leaned against the barkery counter pretending to debate between buying canine crunchies and doggie delights.

"I hear you were in Janice Fletcher's house the morning she died. That true?"

Don—Mr. Fancy Slacks who it seemed had decided to make the café his office while he was in town—came over to join us. "I heard you were there when she died."

I glared at him. He didn't even know her. And he wasn't even from around here. What did he care?

"I was not there when Janice Fletcher died." I stepped back for a moment and sneezed into my elbow. "But I did visit her that morning."

Martin pointed to the canine crunchies. "I think I'll try a few of those. So you were there?"

I bagged up the treats and rang him up. "Yeah. I went over, told her I didn't appreciate how she was harassing us, and she basically told me to stick it so I left."

Don leaned on the display case. "I heard there was more to it. Surely if that's all it was the cops wouldn't have taken you in for questioning."

"Well, whoever told you that was wrong. It's a small town. The cops just wanted to be thorough."

"How'd she die anyway?" Martin asked as I handed him his receipt and treat bag.

"I'm not sure I'm supposed to say. But I think it was an accident."

"So it wasn't murder?" Don leaned forward, trying to charm me with those green eyes of his. He was handsome, but he was not my type.

I cleared my throat which had gone all dry and scratchy. Seemed I was still recovering from my exposure to so many cats. Usually my allergies don't hit me that bad but usually I don't have a swarm of cats rubbing themselves against my legs either.

"Excuse me for a second." I grabbed a couple Benadryl and downed them. "Neither of you happen to have a cat, do you?"

They shook their heads.

"You avoided my question." Don smiled at me, but I didn't return the smile.

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