A Murder Between the Pages by Amy Lillard

Author:Amy Lillard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2020-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Arlo opened the door to her empty house and once again contemplated getting a pet. A cat was out of the question. What if she got another Auggie? And dogs? Well, what if she got a dog, and it ended up insanely large like Mads’s dog? Dewey was a good twenty pounds over what an Airedale should weigh and was about as rambunctious as a two-year-old on a sugar high. So, she had settled for a bird and gotten Faulkner. Heavy sigh. It seemed her luck with pets was not going to hold out, so for now she would just be coming home to an empty house.

She slipped on the kitchen light and set her purse on the table as her phone began to ring. She hadn’t even gotten her shoes off. She slipped out of her flats and fished in her purse for her phone.

Mads. Had he somehow known that she’d been thinking about him? She shook her head and swiped the screen to answer the call. “Hey, Mads. What’s up?”

“I need to talk to you about something.”

Arlo’s stomach sank, and she eased down into the nearest kitchen chair. “What have they done now?”

“What? Who?”

“My book club. I’m guessing this call is about them?”

His deep, warm chuckle came to her through the phone line. It was rich and familiar and nostalgic all in one. “I’m not calling about your book club girls.”

Arlo smiled at the thought of him calling them girls. Kind like the Golden Girls. But a little more rambunctious and determined to solve crimes whether there was one or not.

“Then what is this about?”

“The movie premiere.”

Of course.

“The producer talked to Helen about rooms, and I blocked off some stuff at the hotel.”

Arlo frowned. “You’re the chief of police. How did you get saddled with all this?”

He sighed. “How do I get saddled with anything?”

“True,” Arlo said with a small nod. “Absolutely true. So you blocked off some rooms at the hotel and…”

“I’m wondering if we should do some sort of Sugar Springs experience, like a lock-in at the gym?”

“Did you come up with an idea?” Arlo plucked an apple from the fruit bowl at the center of her table and took a huge bite. She wasn’t crazy about the peel, so she took the piece from her mouth and started nibbling on the white part as he explained.

“It was Frances’s idea. I told her I didn’t think it would be what people would want when they came to a movie premiere, but you know Frances.”

That she did. “I see.”

“Do you?” Mads asked.

“Keep going,” Arlo urged him.

“I told her I would think about it, so now I’m calling you see what you think about it.”

“Is the problem here that we don’t think we’ll have enough room to house everybody?”

“That’s right.”

“Okay…” Arlo continued to feast on the fleshy part of the apple. “Let me think a sec.”

“Take all the time you need. They only want me to get back to them by tomorrow morning.”

“Tomorrow morning?”

“I’ve been sitting on this awhile.

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