Cast Iron Alibi by Victoria Hamilton
Author:Victoria Hamilton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beyond the Page
Published: 2019-10-06T14:00:00+00:00
Twelve
“T-terry? Are you . . . are you sure?”
Hallie stared at Jaymie. “Yeah, he told me. Why?”
“No reason,” Jaymie said, her voice faint.
“Can we go home? I want to lie down,” Hallie said to her mother.
Hallie’s mom led her away, her arm over her daughter’s shoulder. Jaymie watched them disappear around a bend in the road, happy that at least the girl had family, then turned to Val with consternation. “What are the chances that Mario’s son, Terry, is Brandi’s husband, Terry. The description is right.”
Val shivered. “How awful if Brandi’s husband found out that his wife was inadvertently sleeping with his father. It’s pseudo-Oedipal in some weird way I can’t wrap my mind around. And that kind of weirdness could easily lead to murder.”
“But Terry is a common name, right? How many Terrys do you know?”
“I know three or four, at least, probably more,” Val said. “It’s like the name Chris, so common. But if the two Terrys are one and the same it would give Brandi’s husband a powerful double motive for killing Mario.”
“Hallie knew about Mario sleeping around. That gives her a motive too, beyond what we already knew. Kory’s definitely got a motive, and he was right there. People keep saying he’s nonviolent but . . . what do we know about him?” She glanced down the road and saw Sammy walking toward them, hand in hand with a girl about his age. “Sammy!” she called out.
He came closer, but his gaze was on the burned-out cottage. “Wow. I saw it this morning when it was on fire.” He stared at the blackened timber, long charred boards pointing skyward. “Somehow this is worse.”
The girl was glancing at Val and Jaymie and trying to get Sammy’s attention.
“Sammy, maybe you could introduce us?” Jaymie said.
His cheeks pinked. “Yeah, sure. This is Ashlee; Ashlee, this is Jaymie and Miss Nibley, the Queensville pharmacist.”
“Val,” Valetta said, putting her hand out to the girl. “I’m just Val when I’m not at the pharmacy counter.”
Ashlee shyly shook hands with them both. They made brief small talk, discovering that the girl was in college too, and had been home all summer, babysitting and sometimes working with Sammy on landscaping jobs, which he took on in addition to his barback job at the Ice House.
“Were you working at the Ice House last night, Sammy?”
He nodded. “It was hopping. We had a different band there last night, 2B-Tru, and they brought in a whole lot of their friends from Wolverhampton. But most of them cleared out before eleven to catch the last ferry. After that it was locals.”
“What time was the trouble between Mario and Kory?”
Sammy watched Jaymie’s eyes and nodded once, acknowledging that he knew why she was asking; her help in solving his father’s murder was something he was never likely to forget. “That was about one or so. I know he was arrested, but I don’t think Kory would have killed Mario. For one, he was dead drunk. And for another, if
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