Closer to Death in a Garden (Pitkirtly Mysteries Book 10) by Cecilia Peartree

Author:Cecilia Peartree [Peartree, Cecilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19 Baffled, of Pitkirtly

Amaryllis was also awake at five on Sunday morning, but in her case she recognised the futility of lying awake thinking about things. Instead she decided to get up and get on with the day.

She hadn’t even planned it, but somehow by five-thirty, after a strong coffee and a power bar she found her footsteps taking her up to the road junction where you could either turn down towards the shops, the Cultural Centre and eventually the Queen of Scots, or up the hill if you were heading for the derelict hotel, the garden centre and one of the routes out of town.

She hesitated at this point. She didn’t want to risk being pulled in for questioning again, mainly because it would be such a waste of time. They might even keep her for longer the next time out of pure irritation that she had got under their feet twice in one weekend. On the other hand, she sensed that there was more to discover around the two scenes of crime, and no guarantee that the police would discover it all. She could go back down to Penelope’s and make a nuisance of herself there until the woman woke up, but the thought of the twitching net curtains put her off a bit.

Amaryllis gave herself a little shake. All this hesitation was a sign she had become too cosy and comfortable in Pitkirtly. Perhaps she should contact the people she had once worked for to beg them for one last mission, if only to give her an incentive to get back the edge she knew she had been renowned for.

She was only encouraged by the certainty that Christopher would be utterly horrified if she did anything of the kind.

It was definitely time to confront her misgivings – Amaryllis wasn’t going to call them fears – and go up the hill again to revisit the gardens on the edge of town, preferably without being seen this time. This would have to act as a pale substitute for a new mission in terms of keeping her senses well honed.

She got almost as far as the hotel before coming to a ‘road closed’ sign and seeing a lonely police car parked on the verge up ahead. Surely the police hadn’t been there all night? That would have been a very unusual event in the annals of Pitkirtly crime-fighting. She hoped nothing more had happened to cause this. But perhaps two suspicious deaths in the same neighbourhood within a few days had caused them to be on high alert.

She ducked into the hotel grounds through a gap in the perimeter wall. She was almost confident she hadn’t been seen. Even if two police officers had been in the car all night, at least one of them was probably having a nap by now, and the other reading inspirational literature or something on his tablet.

There was a shout from somewhere up ahead. Surely to goodness that annoying man from the house at the back hadn’t spotted her already.

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