Hang Ten Australian Cozy Mystery Boxed Set: Books 1 - 12 by Stacey Alabaster

Author:Stacey Alabaster [Alabaster, Stacey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2019-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

3

Alyson

I actually thought I might get some peace from the two of them that evening while they had their meeting with the lawyers, but Claire and Bianca’s meeting was canceled in favor of what Bianca called ‘Incredibly Important Detective Work,’ and Claire ended up inviting Bianca into our hotel room. Not how I had wanted my first afternoon in Sydney to go at all. My plan had been: pool, gym, surf, massage, then room service. Not pool, murder, and Bianca’s antics.

But it seemed that no matter where Claire and I went, trouble followed. This was not the first murder we had investigated. We were old pros. But to hear Bianca yammer on, you wouldn’t have thought that mine and Claire’s presence was even needed. She was already leaning over the coffee table, taking charge of everything. She even asked me to fetch her a glass of water. I didn’t do it, of course. I do have some pride. “What, are your arms painted on?” I’d asked before she had waltzed to the tap and gotten it herself.

“So! What do we know about this victim?” Bianca was rubbing her hands together with what appeared to be glee. Claire had already told her what old pros we were at this and that had only made Bianca even more excited to join in with us. She asked us what our process was and Claire and I just kinda looked at each other in panic and ummed and ahhhed for a few moments.

“Well, we don’t really have a process per se,” Claire said, mumbling something about using our intuition and following wherever the case took us, then she looked at me, clearly hoping I would jump in with something that made us sound a bit more professional.

Nope. No chance there. I was far less professional than Claire could ever hope to be. She should have known that.

“No, we usually just bumble along while Claire jumps to the wrong conclusions, and then in the end, I wind up being right and she agrees that she should have listened to me from the start.”

“Er, is that how it usually works?” Claire asked, frowning at me.

Yes. Usually.

But Bianca had seen too many of those crime shows and listened to too many podcasts. She’d already gotten out a pen and notebook and was already scribbling things down. “Start with what we know,” she stated. “If we don’t have facts, we don’t have anything.”

I sighed. This was all far too professional for my liking. It was just a murder investigation. Time to chill out a bit. Oh, right. Maybe I should be taking it more seriously. I leaned forward. “We know she was staying on the twentieth floor of the hotel, in room number two-oh-four.”

Bianca nodded and wrote the details down. Well, the few that we had. We knew her name was Emily Ryan and that she had long, blonde hair, and we knew that the guests staying in the room next door were named Alyson Foulkes and Claire Elizabeth Richardson.

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