Cottage on Gooseberry Bay: Thanksgiving Past by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2020-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Tuesday dawned dark and overcast. Several inches of rain had been predicted over the course of the next few days, although so far, all we’d had was a bit of drizzle. The dogs and I decided to head out for a walk before the heavy moisture blew in. I was tempted to take a run up to the bluff, but I hated the thought of being that far from home if the sky did decide to open up, so I decided a walk along the sandy shore of the peninsula would be a good alternative.

As I did most days when I chose to walk along the peninsula beach, I headed to the right. Three cottages were on the left, and I hated to disturb the others by walking past their doors so early in the morning, but Coop, the only resident with a cottage to the right, didn’t seem to be home all that often even in the early morning hours.

As I walked along the sandy shore, I thought about the investigation the gang and I had undertaken. After my conversation with Vanessa Hudson, we’d decided to follow up on the lead relating to the blue sedan. Parker had gone through her notes in order to verify that no one had mentioned a blue sedan during the initial investigation, and then Parker and I had taken a walk around the neighborhood where the Hamish family had lived and chatted with as many neighbors as we could find at home. It seemed that no one we spoke to remembered anything about a blue sedan, which I supposed was odd. If a car had been parked in front of the Hamish family home in the days before their disappearance, it seemed that someone would remember having seen it.

I knew that Jemma and Parker continued to work on the case. Jemma had found her way into the official police files, but the digital copy of the investigator’s report was sparse with only the very basic information provided. Jemma had also continued to search for Vanessa, but as of the last time I’d spoken to her, she hadn’t had any luck. I could see that both Parker and Jemma were becoming frustrated with their lack of success, which made me feel bad for them, but while I wanted to help and planned to do so to the extent of my ability, the truth of the matter was I had my own mystery to try to find answers for. Answers I suspected I was going to need to find if I wanted freedom from the dreams that were disturbing my sleep nearly every night.

“Coop,” I said as I rounded the corner and found the resident of cottage number five sitting on his waterfront deck. “I’m sorry to have disturbed you. I didn’t think you’d be here.”

“The mail charter I’ve been doing for the past few months is over, so I won’t be going out as early in the mornings anymore.” He looked off toward the dark sky.

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