Foxes and Fatal Attraction_Mystery by Ruby Loren

Author:Ruby Loren [Loren, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-20T05:00:00+00:00

I ended up driving Yolanda, Tiff, and myself back to the estate agents. Tristan Herriot was there gathering some papers together. He managed a brief sharing of condolences before explaining that the police had wanted him to bring down a record of all the houses Josh had been showing to people and a few other details besides.

“We found the perfect house!” Yolanda said, incredibly out of place.

Tristan frowned for a moment, his eyes even skating over Tiff. “Great,” he replied, obviously not caring. Then he walked out of the estate agents.

A moment later, there was a knock on the shop door.

“Thank goodness you’re here!” Yolanda said, rushing over to let Esme in.

“Thanks for calling me,” the other woman replied, walking into the estate agents.

I knew I was frowning. Yolanda had lied to Officer Kelly about who she’d been calling. Gossip about who was dead and how it had happened was no doubt everywhere by now.

“I’m just so pleased I was at my ladies’ book club when it happened,” Esme told us all. “I don’t mean to be callous, but you have no idea of the heat I was under when poor Harry died! I really thought they were going to lock me up for good.”

“What book were you reading?” Tiff asked, probably thinking along the same lines as I was - there was no way Esme was part of some fuddy-duddy book club.

“Oh, I think it was called Her Rampant Stallion, or something like that. You should see the cover!” she said, fluttering a hand over her heart. I quickly got the impression that the book had very little to do with horses and a lot more to do with racy romance. I supposed that it wasn’t that much of a surprise that Esme had expensive taste if the only books she ever read were billionaire romances. What average man could keep up with that?

“Poor dear Josh, he was always such a nice boy,” Esme said, not crediting the young man with adulthood.

“I thought it looked like he did it to himself,” Yolanda whispered, immediately breaking Officer Kelly’s request.

Esme looked puzzled. “Then it wasn’t another murder? But you said on the phone…”

“She thinks he was strangled, like Harry.” Yolanda tipped her head back at me and Esme stared over.

I shrugged, unwilling to say anything more. I was not going to be drawn into a gossip-fest less than an hour after a murder had taken place.

“It’s getting late,” Tiff said, looking out at the night sky.

I walked over to the window with her and looked up at the stars. Auryn had gone to an evening get together of The Lords of the Downs, and for once, I found I was glad he was otherwise engaged. He’d be put-out to say the least when he found out I’d unwittingly got very close to yet another killer.

A pair of blue flashing lights came down the street. The car pulled up outside of the estate agents, causing mild panic within.

“Heavens! They’re here to arrest me!” Esme said, all of a flutter.

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