For a Good Paws by Linda O. Johnston

Author:Linda O. Johnston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction;fiction novel;mystery;mystery novel;mystery book;animal mystery;dog mystery;bite the biscit;linda johnston;linda johnson;linda o. johnson;bite the biscuit;barkery and biscuits;barkery & biscuits;for a good pause;good paws;CVR09182018
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2019-03-26T18:34:47+00:00

Fifteen

Dinah came in to work on Sunday, as scheduled, and then took her regular days off on Monday and Tuesday. She and I kept in touch by phone calls and text messages now and then—something I encouraged so that I could remain certain she still hadn’t been arrested. Plus, I was doing some nosing around on my own to try to ensure that neither she nor anyone else who’d been at her birthday party was taken into custody by the cops.

Not that I had any real idea about who killed Henry. Not yet, at least.

Things remained fairly normal at the shops over those next few days, as well as at the vet clinic, where I had a couple more shifts while my helpers did their usual things at the Barkery and Icing.

No visits from Wayne or Bridget during that time, either—not even when Dinah was working. Nor did either of them stop in to get my current take on who’d killed the former mayor’s husband, despite my successes in figuring out past murders.

Soon it was Wednesday, and I was in the kitchen baking, and Biscuit was inside the Barkery as usual. Of course my mind kept slipping to the current murder situation, but fortunately not much appeared to be going on. In fact, I felt rather complacent with nothing in particular happening, at least that I could see. Dinah remained free, and so did everyone else.

Which meant, of course, that the cops hadn’t gotten enough evidence to arrest anyone … yet. But I had no doubt that they would. Eventually.

Now, placing the dough for some of our very special red velvet cupcakes into the white pleated paper cups we used, I couldn’t quite keep my mind off it—maybe because Dinah would arrive at the shops soon.

We’d talk, I felt sure. In the meantime, I’d been encouraging her to do her favorite thing and keep me informed about her research into who might have had something against Henry.

Like she did? Henry’s threats against Dinah had been fairly serious—potentially ruining her writing ambitions, or her life. But heck, her altercation with Henry had been too spontaneous and too brief for me to consider Dinah much of a suspect. Both arguments had happened on the same night, and they seemed related to the stress of the party. Most importantly, I knew Dinah. I just couldn’t accept the possibility that she might be guilty.

Still, I’d feel a lot better when the real culprit was caught.

Someone else who’d been at the resort restaurant that night?

One interesting thing was that Dinah had found out, after our little meeting with them, that Mike Holpurn and his brothers Bill and Johnny had rented an apartment from an Airbnb host. She wasn’t sure how long their commitment was, but at least we now knew where we could find them—maybe. Their renting the place didn’t mean they were staying there, and even if they were, that didn’t mean they were doing anything other than sleeping there at night.

I didn’t have anything new to ask the Holpurns … yet.

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