A Body to Die For by Kate White

Author:Kate White
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

BUT THERE WAS nothing I could do about it. Her sister was dead, and it would be wrong to prod Connie or challenge her or beg her to tell me what she knew. Instead, I was going to have to uncover the truth on my own.

Connie glanced at her watch and looked startled by the time—or maybe it was just a ruse to force the conversation away from where I’d dragged it. She announced that she wanted to be on her way back to Albany. She was exhausted, and she had an early plane to catch tomorrow.

She rose to leave, and Danny said she would accompany her to the front of the inn in order to make certain the driver was ready. I hung behind, shooting Danny a look that indicated I would catch up with her later.

For the next few minutes, I sat alone on the couch in the solarium, staring out the windows into the darkness and yet seeing nothing in the glass but myself staring back. With time to reflect, I was certain that Connie had information she wasn’t willing to divulge. I’d read enough articles on body language and conducted enough interviews to know that when people lie, they often touch their mouth with their hand as they’re speaking or pinch it shut afterward—it’s as if their subconscious is trying to prevent them from prevaricating anymore. Of course, Connie didn’t owe me anything, but if there was a traumatic incident in Anna’s past, it might have played a role in her death—and I needed to know what it was.

One of the problems with this case, I realized, was that there were so many possible areas the murderer could have come from. I had Anna’s love life to consider, as well as her sideline business, and then there was her past, which might hold some ugly secret. Tomorrow morning, first thing, I would pay a visit to Piper to learn what I could about the most recent days and nights of Anna Cole. As for Anna’s past, it looked as though I might have to do a road trip to Wallingford—and see what was buried there.

After ten minutes of pondering in total solitude, I made my way back toward the front of the inn, down several long, dark corridors. I passed no one except a frowning chambermaid hugging the walls. In the lobby, I discovered the front door open, and Danny, wearing her poncho, stood outside on the top step, holding a set of car keys and peering into the cool autumn night.

“She’s gone?” I asked, joining her.

“Yes, she just drove off.”

I glanced back inside the inn to make sure no one was within earshot. Natalie was at the desk but appeared engrossed in a phone conversation.

“The story she told us about Anna thinking she was being watched—you’d never heard anything about that?”

“No, not a word.”

“I wonder if it could have been that brutish Matt Litchauer,” I said. “He may have been checking her out after he’d heard she was the one who’d massaged his father the night he died.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.