CRUMBLED TO PIECES by BRUNS CATHERINE

Author:BRUNS, CATHERINE [BRUNS, CATHERINE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COZY
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Published: 2018-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

"Okay." Josie let her slim legs dangle elegantly in the turquoise blue water as we perched on the side of the hotel pool. "It's becoming obvious that this locket—or shall I say, this missing locket—might help us to find out who killed Allegra. How this is possible, I have no clue. Do you have any idea what the old lady might have done with it and why she would leave it to your grandmother of all people?"

"None whatsoever." It was late afternoon, and we were meeting my parents at the grill-type restaurant inside the New York-New York for an early dinner. Josie wanted to walk back to the Tropicana afterward and try out her beloved penny machines one last time before we called it a night. My after-dinner plans included some television and turning in early. Yes, I was a boring date.

Vegas was okay, I decided, but not exactly my slice of cheesecake. Still, it might be a nice place for my husband and me to visit when it wasn't so hot that I resembled one of my cookies during the baking process.

The temperature was in the high nineties, a bit cool for this time of year in Nevada. Still, I was broiling like a fish as I wiped sweat off my brow. "It feels like some type of riddle to me. Like Allegra wanted my grandmother to be the one to figure it out."

Josie's toes, painted a hot pink, kicked water across the pool. She looked fantastic in a new white bikini she'd bought at one of the gift shops yesterday. "Allegra only met your grandmother a few months ago, right?"

I slid my body into the deliciously cool water until it came up to my shoulders. "Yes, but you know that doesn't mean anything. Everyone is always taken with her. She has a certain pull—an irresistible charm."

"Plus she's never judgmental, gives sound advice, and makes the world's best cheesecake, along with every other type of food."

No arguments there. "Okay, there's that too."

"Do you think Violet's wrong and the locket's some type of antique?" Josie asked. "So if Allegra wanted Violet to stop living such a shameful life, why not leave it to her in the first place?"

"The locket must be worth something, then." A light switch flicked on in my brain. "Maybe that's what the killer or killers are looking for and why they trashed my apartment and Mrs. Gavelli's house."

Josie sipped her Long Island Iced Tea thoughtfully. "Unless there's something inside the locket."

This was like being in the middle of a maze and unable to figure a way out. A locket left to my grandmother by someone she barely knew might hold an important item, but we had to find it first. "Violet could be lying. She wouldn't tell us why she was in New York the same day Allegra died. It's too much of a coincidence as far as I'm concerned."

Josie crunched on a piece of ice. "But why kill Allegra over the locket if you

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