Dead 'N Breakfast by Paulette Brewster

Author:Paulette Brewster
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

After leaving Jenny’s office, Liz stopped by the library to see if Shelly was free for lunch at the Café. They decided to meet at noon which gave Liz plenty of time to purchase cow feed. She wasn’t ready to talk to Miles just yet because she needed a little more time to digest everything Jenny had told her.

She pulled into the parking area of the feed store and backed up to the loading dock before going inside, but the cool reception forced her to quickly take care of her business and leave. Afterward, she sat in her truck, wondering if others in town might also give her the same cold shoulder. James, the owner of the store, had always been helpful and friendly until this morning. Apparently, he thought she was a suspect. It wasn’t as if she was new in town, she’d been born and raised in Maple Ridge and so had her parents as well as her grandparents. It seemed she’d lost a lot of credibility when she left town to work in the big city and it truly bothered her. And to think that just a few months ago he’d asked if she’d like to post a flyer for her B&B in his store window. She turned her head toward that window now, and sure enough her flyer was gone.

A new sense of isolation filled her, and she didn’t like it one bit. She realized that even Jenny’s open-minded willingness to help search out facts was a starting place, but she needed more than just one person’s help. Perhaps Shelly had heard or seen something, anything, on Market Day. Surely, Kevin had been seen with someone other than herself. There had to be a missing piece. She remembered that Shelly always had some kind of gossip to pass along and she found herself counting on it as she put the truck in gear and headed out of the parking lot.

While pulling into a parking space on the street near the Java Café, she saw Shelly walk up the steps to the front door.

“Hey, you’re early!” Liz said, hurrying to catch up to her friend.

“I know. It happens sometimes.” She laughed then pointed to their favorite table at the front window. Liz nodded in agreement.

After they were settled at the table and the waitress had taken their orders, Shelly gave her a weak smile and quietly asked, “How are you doing?”

Liz shrugged one shoulder, replying, “Hanging in there, I guess.”

“Have you heard anything new yet?”

“No. I was hoping you might have.”

Shelly gave a quick shake of her head. “Nothing that would help.” Her usually bright cheery face wasn’t either of those things now.

“Go ahead tell me. You never know and right now I’m looking for a needle in a haystack so I’ll take any news I can get.” She braced herself for negative information with the hope there would be a speck of a positive word.

“I just can’t believe this has happened,” Shelly said.

Liz sighed. “There has to be at least one person who had a motive.

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