Dolled Up to Die A Novel (The Cate Kinkaid Files) by Lorena McCourtney

Author:Lorena McCourtney
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Women private investigators—Fiction, FIC042060, Contemporary, FIC022040
ISBN: 9780800721596
Publisher: Revell
Published: 2013-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

“You heard about Kim’s mother, didn’t you? That she’s dead? Murdered.”

“It’s been in the news.”

“Cate, would you believe, the police have been here to question me about her death?”

“They think you had something to do with it?”

Jo-Jo couldn’t have been the killer herself. It was definitely a male arm that had shot out of the curtain and grabbed Cate’s throat. But even gray-haired little old ladies had been known to hire killers. And Jo-Jo had all that money coming from Eddie the Ex’s insurance.

“They didn’t come right out and say that, but that must be what they’re thinking. Though I can’t imagine why they’d think I had anything to do with it.”

How about Jo-Jo taking vengeance on Celeste for killing Eddie? Cate had thought Jo-Jo was the sole suspect in Eddie’s killing, but maybe the police had an eye on Celeste too. So the possibility of Jo-Jo hiring a tattooed killer to kill the person who’d killed her ex-husband also loomed for them.

“Pretty soon they’ll be digging up cold cases from ten years ago and blaming me for those too,” Jo-Jo fretted.

“I’m sure they’re just checking out anyone who’s ever had any connection with Celeste,” Cate soothed. “And you do have a roundabout connection.”

“Well, yes. And there wasn’t any love lost between us, that’s for sure. But what happened to her . . . that’s really awful. No one deserves that, not even Celeste. But the police shouldn’t be wasting time on me.”

Cate repeated her earlier statement about confidence in the competence of the local police.

“If they’re so competent, how come they haven’t caught Eddie’s killer yet?” Jo-Jo retorted. Then in a quick change of subject she added, “Oh, I don’t think I told you. I bought a car! A nice 2011 Chevy Malibu. Now I can run out to the house every day to visit and feed Maude.”

“I’m glad to hear that. You’ve received Eddie’s insurance money, then?” Enough to hire a killer as well as buy a car?

“No. I signed a contract to buy the car, thirty-six months of payments. I hate to be in debt, but I had to do it, for Maude. Without the alimony money coming in, I’ve also had to use my credit card for some things. I hope the insurance comes through soon. I need it.”

Okay, cancel the hired-killer possibility. Hired killers probably didn’t accept Visa or MasterCard.

“Actually, if it weren’t for Maude, I think I’d just pick up and head for Arizona,” Jo-Jo declared. “The lawyer I talked to said the police couldn’t keep me from doing that, unless they actually arrest and charge me with something.”

Which they might do. But Cate only said, “Let me know if you decide to do that, okay?”

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