A Death in Duck by Mindy Quigley

Author:Mindy Quigley [Quigley, Mindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9781499766714
Google: fkvjoQEACAAJ
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-07-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Lindsay had been trying to contact Simmy ever since the day of the murder, but her phone calls all went unanswered. More than once, she had picked up the phone to call Warren and ask him to check up on her. But every time, her finger hovered over his name on the screen without dialing. When she picked up her phone that morning, however, she noticed an unopened voicemail—from Warren. She hadn’t spoken to him since the break up. Claire had mentioned him a few times when she’d called with questions and updates on the murder investigation, but otherwise, Lindsay had no idea where he was or what he was doing. For six months, she and Warren had moved through life side by side. Even on busy days, they usually exchanged at least a quick call or text. Now they circled each other like planets whose orbits would never cross. With a knot in her stomach, Lindsay pressed the button to play the message.

“Hi. I wanted to tell you that the CSI boys are done out at your aunt’s house. We looked into the angle about Patricia Harding being Leander’s mother, but it didn’t fit. His mother is alive and well and living in Texas. I thought you’d want to know. Anyway, we took all the guns out of the safe as evidence and locked up the house. We left the ashes, in case you wanted them. I also wanted to say...” The message thus far had been fluid and to-the-point, just Warren’s usual calm voice, peppered with his gentle Piedmont twang. But now he paused. “I wanted to tell you that we think Leander Swoopes might be staying somewhere on the Outer Banks. A clerk at a convenience store in Kitty Hawk made an ID. I know you won’t like me saying it, but please be careful, okay? If you hear from your mother, tell her we need to talk to her. Until we find out what she knows, we can’t know for sure if she had a hand in any of this.” Another short pause, and then a rushed ending: “When this is over, we should maybe get together. I mean, there’s some of your stuff at my place that I should probably give back.”

The message finished and Lindsay put the phone down. In that moment, she missed Warren intensely. He understood her need to know the truth about her aunt’s murder—a need that eclipsed everything. Like her, he had an unquenchable drive to find solutions, to solve puzzles, to open the doors that people kept locked.

Lindsay turned to Kipper with a sigh. “So, my friend, Aunt Harding wasn’t Leander’s mother. Why did she pretend to be?”

Kipper just stared at her with his small, round eyes and licked her face.

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