First Class Killer: A Cat Cozy Mystery: A Mail Carrier Cozy Mystery by Tonya Kappes

Author:Tonya Kappes [Kappes, Tonya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“And I worked in the kitchen of the prison.” Revonda Gail had me enthralled with her tale of where she’d been the past ten years. “My mama couldn’t ever bring herself to tell anyone the truth, so she’d tell people I was traveling in an RV with my very rich and wonderful boyfriend.”

“Yeah. She always told me you were off on an adventure. But the postcards?” I asked.

“Mama would buy them off various places from out west, and once she’d get them in the mail, she’d address them to herself and actually drive to the next town to mail them to herself.” Revonda Gail could’ve knocked me over with a feather.

“I can’t believe it.” I sat there in shock and recalled all the packages from the various states out west. Gertrude told me she loved to request things from the states where Revonda Gail was with her boyfriend so they would have something to talk about when Revonda called her every Sunday night. “She said you called her every Sunday night, and it made her week off to a great start.”

“Oh, I called her.” Revonda laughed. “Collect from the state pen.”

“And you were in jail for a crime you say you didn’t commit?” I asked.

“Mm-hmm. The part about having a boyfriend was right. But the part about traveling with him was wrong. You see, I had no idea he was hooked up with smuggling drugs, so when the FBI raided his house, he told them I had the drugs in my car and I worked at a local bank. They came in the bank and had a warrant for my car, and they did find drugs taped up under the car.” She shook her head. “I had no idea they were there, but I still got ten years.”

“Your poor mama.” Iris slowly shook her head. “I bet she’d about died when you came back.”

“There’s one thing I know about my mama. I knew she’d never tell people where I was. When I got out, I knew I couldn’t call her, so I hopped on a bus and rode it all the way back to Kentucky.” Revonda giggled. “You should’ve seen her face when I knocked on her door. Priceless.”

“I bet. I’d have paid anything to see that.” Iris laughed so hard.

“Now what?” I asked.

“Now I help you get Iris off the hook, and Iris is going to give me a baking job at Pie in the Face. I can bake. That’s one thing I did in the big house. She said Geraldine Workman doesn’t bake, that she only runs the register, so if I’m working there, Iris can leave me to bake while Geraldine works the store.” It sounded like a perfect plan to me, and Iris nodded in agreement. “What better person to help solve a crime than one who’s been accused of one and been put in the slammer for ten years? I’ve seen a lot of things, and from what Iris has told me about her history with Piddy, I think we can come up with the real killer.

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