Deadly Greetings: A Card-Making Mystery by Elizabeth Bright

Author:Elizabeth Bright [Bright, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Suspense
ISBN: 9781597223683
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Amazon: 1597223689
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Goodreads: 3973291
Publisher: Cengage Gale
Published: 2006-02-15T23:15:45+00:00

Samerena, share with those I love, and all those gathered together, that the truth is all that matters, and it will see the light of day soon.

She closed the card, then said, “Maggie obviously wanted to share a sense of her spiritual enlightenment with you all. She was devoted to our yoga classes at the Y, and I’m honored she chose me to share this message with you.”

I heard a snort of derision and saw Jeffrey Wallace stomping off. I’d have to speak to him later about his reaction, but Samerena wasn’t finished. She opened the urn, took a pinch of the ashes within it and scattered them into the air. Thank goodness there wasn’t any breeze to speak of. The last thing I wanted was some of Maggie’s ashes on me. Samerena took another pinch and sprinkled it on the ground, then took a final pinch and spread it over a birdbath reservoir inset into the ground. “To the sky, to the sea, to the land,” she said, and I felt a chill run through me. After a moment of silence, she put the urn into the ground, nearly stumbling as a fold of clothing tightened, but she managed to right herself.

“She wanted each of us to say good-bye in our own way.” Then she shoveled a small portion of dirt over the hole and handed the trowel to Hilda, who had been standing closest to her.

Lillian asked me in a whisper, “Have you seen enough, or do you want to shovel, too?”

“Let’s pull back,” I agreed. I had no desire to participate in the ritual, suspecting that Samerena had made it up herself on the spot. “Did you hear that message?”

“That woman is certifiable,” Lillian said. “I don’t get this New Age mumbo jumbo.”

“I’m not talking about that,” I said. “I mean what Maggie wrote her. It didn’t have anything to do with spiritual enlightenment. Maggie knew whoever killed her would be at the service. The truth she was talking about was a lot more concrete than Samerena thinks. Maggie was warning whoever killed her that they weren’t going to get away with it. I just wish I had as much confidence in us as she had.”

“Just what do you think you’re doing?” Barrett’s voice behind me froze my blood. There was real animosity in it, but I was tired of having him push.

It was time to push back.

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