Forests, Fishing, & Forgery: A Camper and Criminals Cozy Mystery Series by Tonya Kappes

Author:Tonya Kappes [Kappes, Tonya]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Tonya Kappes
Published: 2018-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

Not that I had a lot of time to wait until Hank and the slew of police cars pulled up, but to my brain, it felt like a long time to sit there on the curb and think about the dead woman in the building behind me. A woman with a secret.

“She said she had uncovered some things that Corbin didn’t like. What were those things?” I asked myself and sat on my hands to keep them from trembling out of my skin. “Who else would know?”

The lights of a car blinded me like a spotlight, followed by the swirling blue and red lights of the cruisers.

“Mae, are you okay?” Hank jumped out of the first car and rushed over to me. There was a sincere look of concern on his face. He sat down next to me and peeled off his suit coat and draped it over my shoulders. The other officers ran past us with their guns drawn. Hank must’ve seen the look on my face. “They are going to clear the scene.”

“You mean?” I jerked back and looked at him. “You think the killer is still in there.” I gulped. “I didn’t even think of that. I just ran out here.”

“We don’t know if there is a killer.” He smiled.

“Huh? She was shot. In the head. I picked her up.” It was then that I realized I probably shouldn’t have picked her up in case it was a murder scene.

Hank looked at my shirt and I looked down. Alison’s blood smeared all over it.

“We need to make sure it wasn’t a self-inflicted gunshot.” Did he think she killed herself? He continued, “I made it clear that she was a suspect in Corbin’s case. Maybe she realized she was caught and her only way out was to kill herself.”

“No. No.” I shook my head. “She knew I was coming over here to meet with her.”

“You were?” His expression grew still and serious. “You didn’t mention that at the police station.”

The coroner’s white van pulled up along the curb to the left of us.

“I wanted to hear what she had to say.” There wasn’t any need to explain it to him since I’d not gotten the chance to ask her all the things I was keeping from him.

“What else are you keeping a secret in there?” He reached up and tapped his finger to my head.

“She uses an inhaler.” I stood up to avoid looking at his reaction.

“Geez, Mae.” There was an edge of anger in his voice. “You mean to tell me that you knew she used an inhaler and didn’t say anything after I told you we found one at the scene?”

“I . . .” I searched for the words, but nothing seemed to come to mind

“You nothing. This could’ve been avoided if you’d told me that because she’d be in custody right now answering even more questions until the DNA results from the inhaler came back.” He had stood up by the time I turned around to face him.

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