Death by Spiced Chai by Alex Erickson

Author:Alex Erickson [Erickson, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-25T00:00:00+00:00

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At least two people were involved in what happened to Hamish Lauder. I’d suspected as much, considering how I was almost positive my stalker was male and the person in the Banyon Tree video was female, yet it was good to have it confirmed by what Mark overheard.

And, yes, it was entirely possible Hamish had guests over who had nothing to do with his death. But for now, I was willing to run on the assumption that the woman Mark heard speaking was indeed Hamish’s killer—or an accessory to such.

I left Mark a short time after his revelation when it became clear he had nothing else for me. I found it strange Buchannan had yet to talk to Mark, so I made him promise to contact the detective and tell him everything he’d told me—leaving out my name, of course. No sense in giving Buchannan more ammunition against me.

A gloom hung over me as I made my way back home. What if I were right and the murder had nothing to do with me? What if I was just a convenient patsy and Hamish’s private life was where the real evidence could be found?

If that were the case, I’d been going at this all wrong. Could the killer have created chaos in order to hide their real motive? It made far more sense than someone committing a murder just to make me look bad.

But who would do such a thing? I knew practically nothing about Hamish Lauder. There had to be a connection somewhere, something more than his being a reader of my dad’s books. I just had to find it.

My mind drifted in a new direction. There was a new person in my life, someone I knew just as little about as I did Hamish Lauder.

Caitlin Blevins.

She had a problem with me, thanks to a murder I’d solved that involved one of her relatives. There was the curly-haired man in the photograph. The camera pointing toward my house. Her online post about making someone—a she, in fact—pay. That was a lot of little connections for one person not to be involved in some way.

As I turned onto my street, I was happy to note a light was on in Caitlin’s house, and her car was in the driveway. It was time we had a little talk, and this time, I wasn’t going to walk away until I got some answers.

I parked in my own driveway and walked across the yard to Caitlin’s property. A wail, followed by what I could only describe as an explosion of discordant notes, boomed from Caitlin’s house. Someone screamed something completely unintelligible, and a blast of drumbeats interrupted the guitar, before it all came to an abrupt halt. Three heartbeats later, it started up again.

I approached the door, almost expecting it to come flying off its hinges as another failed guitar solo echoed throughout the neighborhood. There was a very unladylike curse from inside, and the whole thing came to another crashing halt. I took the brief lull in sound to knock.

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