Dead Broke by Vannetta Chapman

Author:Vannetta Chapman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery, cozy mystery christian, cozy mystery authors, amish mystery books, amish mystery novels, Christian cozy mysteries, Amish mystery and suspense, Amish murder mystery series
Publisher: Vannetta Chapman
Published: 2020-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

AGATHA WAS AT A COMPLETE loss for words as Officer Griffin slipped the cuffs on her wrists and snapped them closed. This simply could not be happening again. Just last year she’d been pulled into the police station for the murder of Russell Dixon, which of course had been ridiculous. She’d also had her wrists duct taped together by Russell Dixon’s killer.

Now here she was again—handcuffed. How was it that this kept happening to her? She couldn’t make sense of it. Her thoughts kept jumping between that and this, between the past and the present.

She heard Tony trying to reason with Griffin.

She saw the DEA officers standing to the side of her porch with their canine counterparts.

And then Lieutenant Bannister arrived, strutting like a very proud peacock. There was no mistaking the gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.

He accepted the evidence bag holding the brownies from Griffin. “Amish weed. Is that a thing?”

Agatha thought of denying that the brownies were hers, but they had been in her house. Daniel and Mary had obviously eaten some. It certainly explained their behavior.

Oddly enough, it was Gina Phillips who came to her rescue.

“Jimmy Bannister, take those cuffs off Agatha this minute.”

“Stay out of this, Gina.”

“Stay out of it? You want me to stay out of it? Then you take those cuffs off her right now.”

“Why would I do that? I have the evidence right here, not to mention the elderly man in there on the couch and his wife sitting in that lawn chair. They’re both so high they could barely give me their names.”

“They didn’t know what was in the brownies.”

“That makes it worse.”

“No. It doesn’t, because Agatha didn’t make those brownies. If you’d just listen”

“I don’t have to listen, Gina. Agatha can attempt to explain herself at the station.”

“Do you know my cousin still works at the paper, Jimmy?” Gina pointed at the badge on his shirt. “You may have straightened up your act now, or at least you want everyone to think you have, but some of us remember those charges in high school that were dropped after your daddy wrote a donation check to the police department. You want that story brought back up? Because I have a good memory of the details.”

Agatha was now listening aptly, her head swiveling from Gina to Banister and back again.

Bannister ran a hand over his face, then he stepped closer and lowered his voice. “It’s her first offense. More than likely the judge will go easy on her, but I have to process this because we have evidence.” He held up the offending bag of brownies and shook it in her face.

“Those are not Agatha’s.” Gina spoke each word as if it were a complete sentence—as if she needed to speak more slowly so that Bannister could catch up.

“That’s what they all say.”

“Someone left them on her doorstep, and I’m the one who found them and brought them in the house.”

“Oh, for pity’s sake...”

“If you want to arrest someone then arrest me.”

“Gina...”

“I was with Agatha all morning and Tony was with her all afternoon.

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