A Deadly Grind by Victoria Hamilton

Author:Victoria Hamilton [Hamilton, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9780425248010
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1112-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Twelve

“WHAT DO YOU mean?” Daniel asked. “Jaymie, are you okay? Tell me!”

She swayed. So now she knew who the mysterious Lachlan McIntosh was. But how could she tell Daniel that his buddy, his friend, was the murder victim found in her home? Hey, Hoosier dead guy? DeeDee’s joke replayed in her mind, but this was neither the time nor the place. It never would be, now that she truly knew who the dead man was. “Daniel,” she said, and put her hand on his arm, looking up at his perplexed expression in the dim library light. “I think that Trevor Standish might be Lachlan McIntosh, the guy who was murdered on my summer porch.”

“What do you mean?” He stared at her for a long moment, then, his half smile dying, he said, “Okay, so I said ‘the late Trevor Standish’. I get it, haw haw! Joke’s over.”

“No, Daniel, I mean it,” she said, touching his arm.

“Look, Jaymie, you’re way off base with this one. I just got a text message from Trev not more than an hour ago.”

“Then someone is playing games, Daniel. I wouldn’t joke about something like that; you have to believe me. The fellow they identified as Lachlan McIntosh is really Trevor Standish. I saw his body; I ought to know. Do you have a more recent photo than that?”

“Of Trev? Sure.”

He dashed over to the desk, grabbed his iPad and brought up class reunion photos from the year before. One showed him and Zell McIntosh and Trevor Standish at a bar, toasting. It was him, the fellow she had seen, all right, down to the same slacks and shirt.

Daniel watched her face anxiously, and when she looked up at him her certainty must have showed, because his face twisted, and he whispered, “No! Not Trev!”

“I’m so sorry! We’ve got to call the police.” She did so while Daniel sat down in a leather desk chair and stared into space, tears gathering in his eyes. He squinted, took off his glasses and knuckled one of his eyes, then cleared his throat. The police said they’d send someone right away. Jaymie hung up, returned to Daniel and took his arm. “C’mon, let’s go into the kitchen and sit. I’ll make some coffee.”

The kitchen was expansive but old fashioned, and not in a good way. But she found coffee in the freezer and put the pot on as she looked out the back window at the well-kept gardens. When the victim was a stranger it had been hard enough to figure out the mystery, but it seemed even weirder now that she knew it was a friend of Daniel’s. Why had Trevor Standish broken into her home? It didn’t make any sense that this stranger, who was only coming to have a reunion with his frat buddies, would wind up murdered on her summer porch.

“What was he like?” she said, returning to Daniel’s side.

He had recovered some, and he talked, telling her about his buddy’s college days,

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