Costa Rica Beach Cozy Mysteries Box Set: Books 1 to 3 by K.C. Ames

Author:K.C. Ames [Ames, K.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 17th Street Books
Published: 2021-03-02T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty

Dana and Benny weren’t seeing eye to eye about trying to find out why Barry Shy was in her bookstore. Finding the answer to that mystery might solve the murder. But Benny saw it as just snooping, since he believed strongly that those were matters that should be left to the police.

She knew he had to be careful over his legal career, even though he insisted his concern was on her meddling into Detective Picado’s investigation. She could be put away for preventive detention for interfering with police matters.

Courtney was downright terrified.

“We go for a drink at the Que Vista and ask the ladies of the Gossip Brigade some questions about what they might have heard or seen about Barry Shy’s case, and that’s it,” Dana said.

“Why do you think that raucous group of canasta-playing old biddies would know anything worth knowing?” Courtney was not a fan of the Gossip Brigade. But the group of widows had grown on Dana. Yes, they were loud and brash and nosey, but the four longtime friends had thirty decades of living experience between them. The youngest of the group, Doña Chilla, was seventy-seven years old. Dana imagined you stopped caring about what people thought about you or holding back your tongue at that age. It was a liberating thought for Dana.

“It’s a small town. A village, really, and those four ladies know everyone in a one-hundred-mile radius. They even knew Detective Picado when he was a child growing up in Liberia. So even that sourpuss shows reverence towards them, and I’ve seen him playing bridge with them. I doubt he does that as a sense of civic duty. He knows where to get information from, and they’re a great source for information about the comings and goings around here.”

Courtney shrugged. Benny added his own shrug, not being as convinced in the investigative powers of the Gossip Brigade.

The three of them walked into the Qué Vista restaurant ten minutes later.

The Gossip Brigade was already there, finishing their breakfast. Perfect timing, Dana thought, since they hadn’t gotten into card mode.

The entire gang was there. The Gossip Brigade was made up of four old ladies that loved to play chess, canasta, and more than anything else, they loved to gossip and were shamelessly nosey, asking questions that would make the person on the receiving end of their queries blush.

Three of the old biddies had been friends since childhood. The newcomer joined the group in the 1960s.

They knew everyone in the province and loved to name-drop whenever they could. Their favorite topic was talking about that incorrigible little rascal back in the old neighborhood that so happened to have grown up to become the president of Costa Rica.

The way they talked about the president, they seemed to think he was still the same snot-nosed kid running around barefoot in the park.

“I didn’t trust him back then, I don’t trust him now,” one would say as the others vehemently nodded in agreement.

If anyone had heard rumors or innuendos as to what happened to Barry Shy, it would be the Gossip Brigade.

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