A Cutthroat Business by Bente Gallagher

Author:Bente Gallagher [Gallagher, Bente]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: PublishingWorks, Inc.
Published: 2010-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

12.

It was almost four o’clock by the time Tamara Grimaldi had finished all her interviews and got back to me. By then, almost everyone else had been dismissed, except for the small crew of detectives scouring Clarice’s office for clues. I had spent a couple of boring hours preparing a three hundred-piece mailing to my “sphere of influence”—everyone I had ever known, with the exception of my ex-husband and his new wife—to tell them I was a real estate agent and to ask if they would please keep me in mind if they were thinking of buying or selling. That done, I had descended into reading the tawdry romance novel I keep in my bag for just such occasions, and was just getting to the part where the muscled highwayman was riding off across the moors clutching the swooning form of the heroine to his manly chest when Detective Grimaldi appeared at my door. “Ready to go?”

I had been ready to go for two hours, but I thought it best not to say anything about that. Instead I rose with alacrity. “Sure. Where?”

She waited until we were outside on the sidewalk before she answered. “Since Mrs. Jenkins already knows you, I thought you might want to come with me when I talk to her.”

I stumbled slightly, but told myself it was because of the heels on my shoes and nothing else. “We’re going to the Milton House?”

She glanced at me. “Is there a problem?”

I had to hustle to keep up with her long-legged and short-heeled gait. “Um . . . no.”

“You don’t sound sure.”

“No, it’s just that . . . well . . . Rafe Collier told me not to go back there.”

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