BEACHES IN PARADISE by Daley Kathi

Author:Daley, Kathi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: amateur sleuths;murder mystery series;women sleuths;female detectives
Publisher: Henery Press
Published: 2018-04-18T15:43:18+00:00

Chapter 11

Saturday, August 12

I woke the next morning wrapped in Kyle’s arms. His warm breath caressed my cheek as he snored softly. I took a moment to enjoy the perfection of the moment, even though we were both fully dressed and lying on top of the covers in his bed. Talk about irony. I had been dreaming for weeks about waking up in Kyle’s arms for the first time. I’d just figured it would be after we’d finally taken the next step in our relationship.

Once again, I didn’t remember coming into the bedroom, so Kyle must have carried me in after I’d fallen asleep. If I knew him, he’d probably worked into the wee hours of the morning. The poor guy must be exhausted. I didn’t want to wake him, so I carefully unwound his arms from around my body and tiptoed into the kitchen.

I put on a pot of coffee before slipping into my tennis shoes and sweatshirt and taking the dogs out for their morning run. It was a beautiful morning. The sky was just beginning to turn light, although the sun had yet to make an appearance over the distant mountain peak. The air was still and the water calm as I walked along the sandy shore. Echo and Trooper were thoroughly enjoying their early morning romp, running side by side carrying the same long stick.

Roy never had called last night unless it was after I’d fallen asleep. I hated to call him so early, so I was going to have to employ some of the patience I was always telling Ashley and Gracie they needed to have and wait until the rest of the world awakened before getting the answers I was dying for.

As I walked along the sandy beach, I tried to get my head around the things we’d been able to uncover so far. We knew Striker Bristow had been shot in the back and that he’d eventually ended up strapped into Gina’s car, which had ended up in a field wrapped around a tree. We knew Gina had been working with Bristow on his new proposal, and Bristow wasn’t popular among many of the locals.

We suspected Gina had been driving the vehicle in which Bristow’s body had been found, and that she had been pursued at the crash site and eventually forced into another car. Additionally, we suspected she was being held by someone associated with Bristow, but we didn’t know who or even why.

As far as I knew, there hadn’t been any ransom demands. Bristow was dead. What more could anyone want from Gina?

I was bothered by the fact the man who’d claimed to be her long-lost brother wasn’t, yet he still had been staying in her house all week. Who was he and how did he fit into things?

And then there was the fact that Bristow’s car had been found at the marina and a phone that might be Gina’s had been found on Rosenberg Island. What on earth could the

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