Gotcha Detective Agency Mystery Box Set by Jamie Lee Scott

Author:Jamie Lee Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jamie Lee Scott

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Back at the hotel, Nick and I had packed up our belongings and were ready to leave, when Charles stopped by the room.

“You aren’t staying for the rest of the show?” He didn’t exactly sound disappointed.

“I miss Lola, and I have my own business to run.” I gathered up my bags, but Charles took them from me.

“I’ve got it,” he said.

I was suspicious. Chivalry wasn’t a word in Charles’ vocabulary. “What do you want?”

Charles headed to the door, which was now being held open by Anthony. “I want you out of here before there are any more dead bodies.”

Anthony hugged me while holding the door open with his foot. “Way, way too much drama. Queen.”

I hugged him back. “Who are you calling a drama queen?”

I had to admit, death seemed to surround me. My husband, Esme, Marina. Goodness knows they all had crazy circumstances. I had to put all that behind me now. I was moving on to living. I had me a new guy, great sex, and a business that just solved a case for a huge client.

Speaking of that client, Cortnie was in the hallway.

“Good grief, what is this? A send off?” I was now really suspicious that so many people were so happy to see me leaving.

Cortnie said, “If it’s okay with you, I’m going to stick around and help Charles and Anthony for the rest of the weekend. I talked to Mr. Clinton, and we have a meeting first thing Monday morning.”

I thought about it. She had my car. I loved my car, and I wanted it at home with me. Fine. She’d done a fantastic job with her first client, and I could use an old beater from the agency for the rest of the weekend.

“We don’t really care if you stay or leave, we just want to know what the hell happened at the police station.” Charles finally fessed up.

Nick walked out the door behind me. “Becky was right. Willard didn’t do it. It was Zack. The nephew had his own ax to grind with Marina, and when he was finally fed up with her, he poisoned her. He thought he’d set up Willard quite nicely. He even tore the auto parts store receipt, so the purchase time and date were missing.”

I heard Anthony whisper, “But I really liked him.”

Nick continued, “But the police were able to track the store number and get that exact time and date of the transaction.”

“Got to love video surveillance,” Cortnie interrupted.

“Actually, it wasn’t the store video that nailed him,” I said, “It was a news station feed that was doing a promotional video outside in the mall parking lot.”

All eyes were wide.

Nick said, “They were able to track down the time and date. The store manager remembered they were very busy that day because the local news station was doing a fundraiser in the parking lot. Zack just happened to be caught on the video feed.”

“Bullshit. How did they know he bought antifreeze?”

I laughed. “It doesn’t get much better.

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