Bucket List: Maple Syrup Mysteries by Emily James

Author:Emily James [James, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988480169
Publisher: Stronghold Books
Published: 2017-11-30T22:00:00+00:00

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Gordon Albright hadn’t been a drug addict, but he might still have been a thief.

If he’d had a drug addiction, he would have been skimming money all along. That large withdrawal at the end made it look more like he’d known his mother was reaching the end of her life and wanted to take what was left of her money before she died. Upon death, her accounts would have been frozen and his power of attorney would have ended. Then the estate would have been split between him and his brother, giving him only half.

He might have fed Leonard the drug addiction story himself to convince his brother to drop the suit. That didn’t explain the strange reaction from Leonard’s wife, though.

What would explain her reaction was if Leonard made up the drug addiction story to cover up the fact that he knew his brother stole that money and killed him over it.

If that was the case, he shouldn’t have sued Gordon at all, but perhaps that was a mistake he realized once it was too late. Bringing the suit at all would make him a suspect if Gordon died under suspicious circumstances. If he dropped the suit, waited, and then planted Gordon’s body in Clement’s house, he had a chance of getting away with it.

Did he want vengeance more than he wanted the money returned? If he’d continued with the suit and won—which he might have since Gordon had no record of where that large sum of money went—he would have gotten his inheritance. Killing his brother got him nothing monetarily.

This case made me feel a bit like I was trying to run a marathon with one shoe on. I had to keep moving forward, but everything felt awkward.

I took a picture of the bank book on my phone, wrote down the name of the accountant Gordon Albright used, and then Troy and I packaged everything else back up and replaced it where we’d found it. I couldn’t remove them without permission, and they’d be safe here anyway.

There was only one way to unravel this conundrum. Anderson and I had to go back and confront Leonard Albright and his wife with the evidence I’d found proving Gordon didn’t have a drug addiction after all.

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