Hotshot P.I. by B. J. Daniels

Author:B. J. Daniels [Daniels, B. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0056HCVRW
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Intrigue 90s
Published: 1997-05-15T07:00:00+00:00

important, how could he convince Clancy she wasn’t going to be doing any more investigating on her own?

CLANCY STRETCHED OUT in the back of the boat, pretending to be asleep. It was hard to do since she couldn’t help but steal a peek at Jake from under her large straw fishing hat. Jake strode down the dock, his cap pulled low over his eyes, his jaw set in concrete. She didn’t have to see his eyes to know he was furious. Or to know who he was furious with. Obviously he knew that she’d left the boat.

“I thought you agreed to stay here where I could see you,” he said the moment he reached her.

She leisurely pushed back her hat and looked up at him. “I did stay in the boat. For a while.” She grinned, too pleased at what she’d discovered to hold it in any longer. “Don’t you want to know what I found out?”

“Dammit, Clancy, I won’t have you messing up my investigation with your amateur sleuthing.” He glowered at her.

“I found out some pretty good stuff,” she said. “For an amateur, of course. Dex was romantically involved with one of the waitresses.”

“Liz Knowles.”

She stared at him. “How did you know that?”

“She’s one of the witnesses who overheard your conversation with Dex.”

Clancy sat up. “Really?” How interesting. “Wait a minute, why didn’t I see her that night?”

“She was hiding in the pines right beside the deck.” Excitement coursed through her. “Then, she wasn’t the person Dex saw in the darkness. It. was someone else, just as I suspected.” She hurriedly told Jake about the note the cabin girl had left under a bait can and how Dex had been on the island an extra day and night before he contacted her. Also how he’d left the island Thursday to meet someone, maybe a date, and returned in a good mood. “That’s when he left the note.”

She waited for Jake’s reaction, expecting him to be as excited about this as she was. He bent to untie the boat, and, if anything, he seemed more angry.

“Don’t you realize what this means?” she demanded. “Dex knew someone else on the island, someone he left a note for. He also left the island to meet someone. It’s a lead.”

Jake looked up, leveling his gray-eyed gaze at her. “Clancy, I realize telling you what to do is a waste of my breath,” he said. “But it would help if you’d let me do the job I’ve been hired to do. And if you’d just stay put like you’re told. This is my case, and whether you believe it or not, I know what I’m doing.”

“No wonder I keep firing you,” she said in exasperation. “This may be your case, Jake, but it’s my life. Even if I trusted you to do the job my aunt hired you to do, which you have already admitted isn’t. why you’re here, I couldn’t stay put. Someone tried to kill me. The sheriff isn’t even looking

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