Big Trouble on Sullivan's Island by Susan M. Boyer

Author:Susan M. Boyer [Boyer, Susan M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781959023135
Publisher: Stella Maris Books, LLC

Chapter Twenty-Four

Tuesday morning, I walked on the beach as the sun came up, spent thirty minutes in the exercise room next to my office working out with the punching bag, then made myself a smoothie—my favorite, one I called my brain smoothie—for breakfast. I needed all the help I could get that morning. My brain smoothie is a bit like a science experiment I’ve perfected over the years. It has, among other things, wild blueberries, beet juice, kale, oats, and cacao. It helps me think.

I carried my smoothie with me and settled into my office to mull the case board. Already, I thought of it as my office. Better not get too used to this chair, all this room, or this view. The night before, I’d listed all the possible theories of the crime I could think of on my case board. I kicked back in my chair, propped my feet on the desk like I owned the place, and cerebrated on the hypothetical narratives.

Cash had apparently found a theory of the crime he liked awfully fast. He rushed to judgement. I would not make that same mistake. I would carefully consider all the possibilities and eliminate them one by one until I was left with the only possible solution, which of course would be that Everette was guilty as sin. I sighed and reprimanded myself harshly.

People kill for all kinds of reasons, but most often, they do have a reason. Random murders are rare, which is why they get splashed all over the news. It’s especially rare for someone to be the victim of a random killing in their own home. Particularly when the jewelry was left behind. Eugenia was almost certainly killed by someone she knew. Given that, my pool of suspects was relatively finite. Motives tend to repeat, with money and love, or what passes for it, at the top of the list.

I’d started my list with Eugenia’s family—and those connected to them, like Jordyn Jackman—then Eugenia’s closest friends, and worked outward to acquaintances, like Kateryna. For each, I listed any conceivable motives they might’ve had. To be thorough, and in the interest of documenting the case, I listed even those people I considered almost certainly innocent, like Eugenia’s kids. At the very bottom of the list was the least likely scenario, that Eugenia had been killed by a stranger for the thrill of it, or in a fit of rage which somehow involved Eugenia. My case board that morning looked like this:

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