Color Me Dead (The Teasen and Pleasen Hair Salon Mystery Series Book 4) by Constance Barker

Author:Constance Barker [Barker, Constance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

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“I should probably mention up front that an awful lot of people didn’t like Victoria,” I told him as soon as we sat down.

“Victoria?”

“The victim. That’s her name, was her name, however you do that. Victoria Russel.”

“Why didn’t they like her?”

“Mostly she wasn’t likable and made no attempt to be. She was rude and often offended people on purpose, but I never thought anyone would kill her for it.”

“We’ll figure this out,” he said calmly. “If she did something more than upset people, we’ll find out. Right now I don’t want to hear what you think though. Tell me exactly what happened and what you saw. Start with how you know her.”

I looked at James, taking in his steady, clear gaze. Even through his professional mask I saw that he cared about me. He was balancing being gentle with being a professional. He needed for me to tell him all the facts, the things I knew and had seen. Anything else would come later, including apologies, if necessary.

“I can do that,” I said, once I was seated. The vision of her, the image of that dead body that used to be someone I knew, had started to fade and some of the horror and shock went with it. “I had an appointment to meet Victoria. Last night she said she needed to talk to me after breakfast and asked me to come up here. So that’s what I did.”

“You opened the door and saw her body?”

I smiled. “You know I wouldn’t have been able to see her from the doorway, not where she was lying. No, I came in to look for her. I didn’t see anyone at all. The room looked perfect. I thought I must have misunderstood or that she changed her mind, so I was going to leave when I noticed a chair was askew. The truth is that it bothered me and I walked around the table to straighten it.”

“Really? The hotel has how many employees and you were compelled to straighten a chair?”

“It’s who I am, James.”

“So then you saw her.”

“And then I froze. I think I screamed just like people in the stupid movies. I’m still shaking a little. It isn’t like I’d never seen a dead person before, James.”

“Right. You had that woman die in the salon, from the poisoned hair dye.”

“Hair coloring,” I said reflexively. “Yes.”

“But this was a bloody killing, the brutal murder of someone you know… knew.”

“Victoria Russel. The smart, sassy, and completely unlikeable Victoria Russel. She owns a salon in Baton Rouge. She was my mentor out of styling school.”

“And do you know anyone who disliked her enough to kill her?”

I laughed. “Unfortunately I can think of several people here at the conference who disliked her intensely. If she weren’t dead in the other room I wouldn’t think they hated her enough to kill her, but under the circumstances…”

“Let’s make a list,” he said. “Names, relationship to her and whatever you know about the reasons they disliked her.

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