Christmas Puds & Killers by Donna Doyle

Author:Donna Doyle [Doyle, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PureRead
Published: 2019-04-28T04:00:00+00:00

7

Holiday Baking

Back in her car, heading through the damp slush that the snow plow had left behind, Sammy took a deep breath and sighed. Mr. Herzog was definitely determined to get rid of the rec center, but was he determined enough to kill Maureen? She seemed to be the only force standing in his way, and he was certainly interested in knocking down the old to bring in the new, but Sammy hadn’t really found out anything conclusive. It was time to move on and explore something else for a while.

Unfortunately, she knew just where she needed to go, and she wasn’t looking forward to it. Helen’s insistence that Carly Anderson was involved somehow was a thought that had nagged at the back of Sammy’s mind all night, and the only way to feel better about it was go talk to her. But Sammy wasn’t interested in creating an enemy out of this woman—that is, if Carly didn’t already see her as an enemy—and she wasn’t as confident that her cover story would work. Why would a baker visit another baker’s shop, after all?

But as she pulled up in front of Carly’s Cupcakes, she knew she had to try. It would settle her mind, and it would be another person to cross off the list. She desperately wanted to show the Radical Grandmas that she was all on board with this case, and this little visit would prove it to herself as well.

The scent of sugar and butter was thick in the air as soon as she got out of her car. The old building had been painted a muted shade of hunter green, but the brilliant pink and white awning and the decorative painting on the front window made it obvious what sort of place this was. “Carly’s Cupcakes” stood out in bold, swirling pink letters above a display of her goods in a glass case. Sammy’s throat was tight as she walked in, hoping there would be plenty of other customers in front of her so she would have a chance to look around the place before she had to talk to anyone.

But she wasn’t going to be that lucky. The place was completely empty. The black and white checkerboard tile was swept clean around a few small tables along one side of the store near a refrigerated case of cold drinks. The big glass cases that filled up two other walls displayed a variety of cupcakes, cookies, and muffins. The pink theme carried over on the interior, with the drywall behind the cases painted a bright pink trimmed in white. No employees were in sight.

With shaking fingers, Sammy stepped forward and rang the little silver bell on the counter. She eyed the Christmas-themed cupcakes in the case in front of her, each with a tiny candy cane perched on top, ready to order half a dozen of them if things were too awkward.

A woman emerged from the back, dusting her fingers off on her apron. Sammy immediately recognized her dark hair—once again pulled up in a bun—and her long, sharp face.

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