A Silver Christmas (Tipperary Carriage Company Mystery Book 4) by J A Whiting & Nell McCarthy

Author:J A Whiting & Nell McCarthy [Whiting, J A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J A Whiting Books and Whitemark Publishing
Published: 2020-11-27T22:00:00+00:00

12

"Three attempts, Mae. Three. So I ordered a camera for the back of the barn."

Mae sighed deeply. She stood with Ross on the cloudy Monday morning, watching as two workers stood in the bed of their pickup truck and installed motion sensors and a camera over the rear entrance of the barn.

"I know it has to be done," she said. "I just hate to think about it. A place like this ought to be safe."

"It should," Ross agreed. "But no place is safe. I made a first career out of trying to make things safe. All any of us could do was try our best."

Mae nodded. "Between the poisoned apple, and trying to steal my truck and trailer, and then following me home . . . yeah, I guess an extra camera is nothing to complain about."

"The installer tells me he can have my phone report if the system has been tripped." Ross shook his head. "Guess it beats the stakeouts we used to have to do, just sitting and watching all night."

Mae crouched down to greet the two black-and-white border collies who came in from their patrol of the western field and ran to greet her. "Mick and Mack will still do the watching for us," she said, petting each of the happy dogs and ruffling their fur. "You couldn't turn them off if you tried."

"No kidding."

Suddenly the two dogs went racing away through the barn and out toward the driveway. Mae could hear the sound of tires on gravel as a vehicle pulled in. "Who's that?"

"Should be Doc Abernathy. Couple of the old horses have needed their teeth floated for a while. He said he could stop by today."

"Oh, good, though I hate watching that." The term "floating" really meant filing down any points or rough edges that might make it difficult for a horse to eat, and often an older horse needed a little work done to make them more comfortable.

Mae grimaced. The sound of that file. I think I'll go and check the decorations on the sleigh. They do get a lot of wear and tear every night out at the fair.

She walked past the stalls at the far end where all five of her horses resided, and she smiled as Silver swung his head around to look at her. Though she loved all of them, the grey pinto Saddlebred really was the horse of her dreams. She was very lucky that Ross's friend had just happened to spot him out at an obscure country auction where apparently they weren't really concerned about checking the horses for microchips.

There was no denying that the strange events, the ones that had the workmen putting up yet another camera at the farm, had all begun right after Silver had come to her.

Mae paused by Silver's stall. The bill of sale had said “no chip found,” but she had never been able to forget one nagging fact … it would be highly unusual for a horse like this one to

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