French Weddings Can Kill You by Rebecca Dunsmuir

Author:Rebecca Dunsmuir [Dunsmuir, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Manderley books
Published: 2019-02-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

I t was everywhere. Newspapers’ special editions, phones, tablets, computers, TV channels… The major headlines in all French media were about Élodie Faber’s murder.

Who Killed France’s Sweetheart? asked Le Parisien, one of the most widely read French daily newspapers; Worse Than a Drama Movie was the front cover of Libération, another major national paper; Action, a TV show about cinema had prepared a special show titled The Bride Wore Red; and Ghostly Weekly, a new independent magazine practically unknown to French citizens, suddenly sold millions of copies of their special edition Élodie Faber Murdered in A Haunted Castle: The Whole Story. Thirty pages dedicated to recounting a drama the ‘journalist’ who had written it knew nothing about. It was pure fiction.

But the worst were the gruesome pictures and videos of Élodie Faber, dead, on the floor of her suite, with this outrageous makeup on her face. Someone in the castle was feeding the press. But who?

Isabelle and Anita stood in the laundry room, leaning on the washing machines. They couldn’t keep their eyes off their phones.

“This is incredible! Everything goes so fast now. Who took these pictures and filmed this? Did you see anybody filming with their cell phone this morning?” Isabelle asked Anita.

“How would I know?” answered Anita. “Everybody has a cell phone now. Anybody could’ve done this.”

“This is disgusting,” continued Isabelle. “The media really have no respect, even for the dead.”

“Come on,” said Anita, “let’s start our rounds. We have a lot to do.”

The women put their phones back in the pockets of their aprons and pushed their carts out of the laundry room.

“You do the first floor and I do the second?” suggested Anita.

“Sure,” answered Isabelle.

They encountered Liliane on their way, coming from the kitchen and walking back to the library, holding a platter with two cups of fresh coffee and a few treats for herself and Amanda.

“So, have you found out anything yet?” asked Isabelle eagerly.

“Not really,” answered Liliane. “Just a few interesting things, but not sure we can link them to the murder.” Liliane was about to walk away when she stopped and turned around. “Oh, by the way, Amanda wants you to pay attention when you clean the rooms. You might notice something that could be helpful.”

“Like what?” asked Anita.

“To be honest, I don’t know,” answered Liliane. “Anything that attracts your attention or seems odd to you, just tell us. It could be nothing, but again, you never know.”

Liliane walked away. The housekeepers pushed their carts in the corridor.

“I’m not exactly paid to play the investigator or to look in people’s private stuff,” said Isabelle. “This request makes me quite uncomfortable.”

“Then just ignore it,” said Anita. “Unless you really see something weird or scary. Remember: the murderer is among us.” And she pushed her cart in direction to the elevator.

Isabelle knocked on the first door beside her. No answer. She pulled out the master key from her apron pocket and opened it. She felt chills running along her spine when she read the number on the door.

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