Deadly Décor (A Caprice De Luca Mystery) by Karen Rose Smith

Author:Karen Rose Smith
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2014-06-03T04:00:00+00:00

The following morning, Caprice didn’t know when she was aware of the feeling that she was being watched. She just knew at some point that she was. She had errands to run before she was supposed to meet Derrick Gastenaux at the model home site. Her calendar reminded her she had a client meeting in York at nine, and she intended to stop at the rental company on the way back to Kismet. She had a few more items to choose for the Sumpter estate open house. Fortunately, she found them at the rental company’s warehouse. A checkerboard alpaca rug along with an old-world chest would fit in with the Wild Kingdom theme beautifully.

Maybe it was when she exited the rental company and climbed into her car that she noted the white SUV with the tinted windows in the same parking lot. On the road again, she thought she spied it in her rearview mirror. But that was silly. There were a lot of white SUVs on the roads. She really didn’t think a whole lot about it, not then anyway.

Still . . . she had chills running up her arms that couldn’t be explained. Her Nana had always told her to pay attention to anything her body was trying to communicate to her. Caprice did most of the time, but this watched-over feeling was new.

Maybe she was just getting paranoid. Maybe investigating Bob’s murder was something she should leave to the police. After all, Grant, Seth, and her family all thought so. She’d had an experience with someone in an SUV when she was investigating the murder several weeks back.

Maybe it was just SUVs that spooked her . . . or tinted windows.

Brushing it all off as anxiety over Bella and Joe—or nervousness about the awards dinner or distraction because of the possibility she and Seth could be through before they’d hardly begun—she drove through the countryside outside of Kismet for about a half mile. She couldn’t help glancing in her rearview mirror.

Now she saw no one.

Yep, she’d watched too many suspense programs on TV.

However, when she arrived at the model home site, the property had a deserted feeling. She was supposed to meet the builder at 1 Drury Lane. Numbers 3 and 5 were in the construction process, but number 1 was under roof and almost complete. He’d said he’d be there at noon.

It was noon. She pulled her car into the gravel driveway and cut the engine. Taking her tablet computer with her—it had her presentation notes—she climbed out of her car and looked around.

Kismet was located in an area of Pennsylvania where rolling hills were the norm. From all angles of the development, green fields led into the distance. It really was a bucolic setting. These homes weren’t mansions, but they looked to be anywhere from three to five thousand square feet and were designed for families with upper middle incomes. She knew staging them would be her best advertisement for future work.

Walking around the side of the house, she did see a pickup truck parked out back.

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