A Twist of Murder by Patti Benning

Author:Patti Benning [Benning, Patti]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2022-09-10T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

The one upside to the talk with the detective was that it had mostly snapped Jo out of her haze. She drove home angry, hating the fact that the detective was focusing on her and her friends instead of doing what she felt ought to be obvious; really digging into Cole’s dating history and figuring out if he had any more exes who might have had a bone to pick with him. He must have dated a good percentage of the single women in town by this point; every time she spoke with him, he seemed to have a new girlfriend. He wouldn’t even limit himself to single women; he didn’t care about little things like respecting someone’s marriage.

He didn’t deserve what happened to him, she thought as she flicked on her blinker. But he definitely left a trail of broken hearts behind him. A lot of people had a good reason to want him dead. It wasn’t fair that everyone’s focus seemed to be on her. She could understand it, of course — she would have to be an idiot not to, since he had been killed on her porch — but it… it wasn’t fair.

She gave a dry laugh, mentally chiding herself as she turned into her driveway. No, it wasn’t fair, but so what? Life was rarely fair. She couldn’t control what cards she was dealt, all she could do was control what she did with them… and while she might have been dealt a horrible hand, walking through her life like a zombie and hoping things would begin to make sense soon wasn’t going to improve it.

She needed to face the facts. Cole was dead. Gone. It still didn’t feel real, but it had happened. Everyone seemed to think she had killed him, and as much as it hurt, they were only going off of logic and common sense. She and Cole hadn’t had a good relationship, and he had been found dead on her property. Her keeping silent about the matter wasn’t going to change any minds, because all the evidence was against her. Even the police were looking in the wrong places for his real killer.

If she wanted to clear her name and to find Cole’s killer, she was going to have to start being more proactive than a lump of—

Her thoughts, which had begun to resemble a rousing soliloquy, broke off jaggedly when she caught sight of the front of her house. The entire thing was covered in spatters of raw egg and eggshells. Smears of yellow yolk and clear egg white covered her kitchen window and front door, and the siding was wet in patches. The grass and her porch were covered in shell fragments. As she got out of her car, Moxie, who had been lapping at a puddle of raw egg on the porch, looked up guiltily, likely sensing Jo’s anger.

“Who would do this?” she whispered. Flagstone was a quiet town. While she’d read about people’s houses getting egged

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