Blueberry Stars & Stripes Murder: A Donut Hole Cozy Mystery - Book 51 by Susan Gillard

Author:Susan Gillard [Gillard, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Guardian Publishing Group
Published: 2017-06-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Because they were a large group, they decided to take their walk by the park. Lilly was walking Cupcake ahead of the adults because the kitten was still wary about this new dog in the pack.

Jamie had excitedly joined Amy and Heather and Ryan. Curtis was happy to see the humans but was more reserved about Dave. Dave looked up Heather and wrinkled his nose as much as was possible for a dog. It was as if he was saying, “No donuts today? And now this?”

Heather hardly had time to deal with the animals meeting again because Jamie was too enthusiastic in his reveal. He had bagged all the dog’s fur that had come loose during grooming. He had also separated them into “evidence bags” of fur and dirt.

She wasn’t sure if it would help at all, but she was touched by how much time and effort he had taken in preparing this potential evidence. Curtis was also looking in a better mood after being cared for the night before.

“Thank you,” Heather said. “We can send this to the lab and see if there’s anything helpful here.”

Ryan took the bags and said, “I don’t get to go on these walks very often, but I should try to. Evidence comes straight to me.”

“We like that you’re here too,” Heather said. “Maybe you can tell us more about the gun.”

“All right,” Ryan began. His serious conversation about the murder weapon was punctuated by the dogs having a competition over who could mark the most territory. “It was a 9-mm handgun that killed her.”

“It looked like she was shot in the back,” Heather said. “Is that right?”

Ryan nodded. “In the back, hitting her heart.”

“That sounds brutal,” Amy said. “And possibly fitting for the work of an ex-lover.”

“If it was from behind, we still don’t know if Lacy Gwynn knew the killer and let him inside, or if the killer broke in and snuck up on her,” Heather said.

“I do have some more interesting facts about 9-mms,” Ryan said.

“Like what?” Amy asked. She was a fan of guns, though not of course as it related to Lacy Gwynn.

“Lacy and Jay Gwynn both had 9-mm handguns registered to them. One gun was found in the house, but it was the ex-husband’s and not Lacy’s.”

“No chance of that being the murder weapon?” Heather asked. She knew that would be too easy.

“No,” Ryan said. “It hadn’t been fired recently.”

“It is interesting though,” Heather said. “Why would her husband’s gun be in the house?”

“And what happened to Lacy’s gun?” Amy asked.

They were interrupted from their discussion, by the dogs barking. They had both decided that they wanted to claim a tree as their own and were growling at one another. It looked as if they were both out of practice at acting mean and scary. Heather almost wanted to laugh at their display of bravado but knew she had to be firm.

“Hey,” she said. “None of that now. We need to be friends as long as we’re together.

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