A Game of Cones by Abby Collette

Author:Abby Collette [Collette, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

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“YOU KNOW WHAT we have to do.” Maisie assaulted me as we walked through the door. She came around the counter to the door in a frenzied rush, grabbing my arms and dragging me into the back. I was sure my mother had told her everything that had happened. Rory followed behind us.

“Investigate,” I said. “We have to find out who did this.”

“Wait. Really?” she said, seemingly deflated that I had agreed so easily. “I thought I was going to have to talk you into it.”

“No, we have to help Rory, I see that now. And I don’t know anybody better to help me to help her than you.”

A smile beamed across Maisie’s face.

“Didn’t your friend just tell you not to investigate?” Rory said.

“What friend?” Maisie asked.

“O,” I said. “We just talked to him so he could help explain what kind of trouble Rory could be in with the police for throwing away those shoes and not reporting seeing the body.”

“Can she get in trouble?” Maisie asked.

“O says no,” I said. “But that doesn’t mean that Liam Beverly won’t give Rory grief as he follows his clues.”

“So what was O saying about not investigating?” Maisie asked.

“He thinks that it may be dangerous for Rory if we did. But I’m thinking the dangerous part is already out.”

“What do you mean?” Rory asked.

“People will find out that you were the owner of those shoes whether we investigate or not,” I said.

“People like the killer,” Rory said pointedly.

“Right,” I said.

“Don’t you think that the police can solve this without our help?” Rory asked.

All I could think about while I was pacing the floor waiting for Rory to finish talking to Detective Beverly and while we were on the phone with O was that I wanted to find out who really killed Zeke Reynolds. I wanted my friend, who had come to Chagrin Falls because someone sent her to talk to me, to be able to go back home and paint or draw or whatever it was that she wanted to do that would make her happy. And I prayed that never again in her life would she find another dead body. I was sorry that she saw one because of me, and it seemed to me that it was my responsibility to see to it that she got back to New York safe and happy.

Yeah, yeah, that meant trying to solve another murder. I didn’t like the thought of it, or what had happened the last time I did it. I pushed out a breath. I was going to have to shove my brush with death to the nether reaches of my mind.

“Yes.” I nodded. “I know that he can solve it,” I said to Rory. “But sometimes it takes a long time to solve a crime—a murder.” I looked at Maisie for confirmation. She knew more about this stuff than I did. She nodded. “You want to wait around for that?”

Rory looked like she wanted to say something, but instead a sorrowful look filled her eyes.

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