Carrot Cake and Concern (Peridale Cafe Cozy Mystery Book 26) by Agatha Frost

Author:Agatha Frost [Frost, Agatha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pink Tree Publishing LTD
Published: 2023-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Jessie lifted her Converse to see what she’d stepped on as she climbed out of her yellow Mini. She picked up a circular metal object, glancing at the stream of people flooding out of Sue’s front door and into the cars. College was closed due to a gas leak, meaning she was yawning thanks to Shakespeare for nothing, but she’d wasted no time following the directions to Henderson Place.

Smooth on one side, with tiny cubes raised at different heights on the other, it resembled a circular QR code that had been scrambled up from a design she couldn’t make out. She took a picture with the flash and zoomed right in, but it was like no currency Jessie had ever encountered, and she had a collection pinned to her bedroom wall. Weightier than any coin she’d felt, too. Alfie would have known what it was made of in an instant; he might have even known what it was.

Jessie pocketed her find, looked off to where the road ended, and vowed that she’d get on the other side of those gates before she left. After what she’d overheard at the hospital, she had to. She had it all figured out, and Romeo and Juliet had helped her get there.

Squeezing past the last of the flow leaving Sue’s house, Jessie found Sue in the kitchen with Julia. She hadn’t expected to see her mum, considering the café should have been open, which could only mean one thing. Jessie hoped her mum wasn’t giving Melissa a third strike; the writing was on the wall with Melissa as far as Jessie was concerned. Julia was always slower to catch up when feelings were involved. If only she didn’t keep falling for their fake interview personalities.

“Did my invite to the housewarming get lost in the post?” Jessie asked, her voice breaking up the hug the siblings were rocking in by the window. “What’ve I missed?”

“My baby sister being a hero,” Julia said, squeezing both of Sue’s shoulders. “Trying to make a change in the world.”

“You can thank Henry,” Sue said, giving Jessie the same puzzled look as when she’d turned up at the hospital. “He taught us how to mobilise, how to plan, how to figure out when our insane schedules aligned so we could meet to talk about these things. We’re all so spread out, so we could never get everyone at a meeting.”

“That wasn’t everyone?”

“About half,” Sue said, checking her watch. “And as Henry always said, for a movement, you need mass.”

Jessie blinked back her confusion. “Wait, am I following this right? Are you telling me that Sue is in her anarchist era, and all those people are nurses ready to fight for their rights?”

“Peaceful demonstrations,” Sue corrected in a flash. “What else are we going to do? They’re not listening. Nothing makes a difference. We’re told to sit and wait, and when does that ever help? We need to do things to get the word out there now, and Henry showed us how.

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