Katherine Hall Page Presents Malice Domestic 11: Murder Most Conventional by Katherine Hall Page

Author:Katherine Hall Page [Katherine Hall Page]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781479421602
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2016-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

They followed the path around back, where the garden was indeed more extensive. There were a couple of crab apple trees with pink blossoms shedding petals, graceful pink and white peonies, and beds of light green shoots of more plants and some large terra-cotta pots of brightly colored petunias. The spring air was heavy with the scent of blossoms on some of the flowering trees.

“There’s Suzie,” Norah said. “I never got a chance to congratulate her. I suppose it might be embarrassing considering Jake was up for that award, too, but she deserved it. I’m going to go talk to her.”

Lucy lingered with Cat on the soft grass. She noticed Molly mixing with the many people who had turned out. Molly looked appropriately mournful but relaxed.

“They pronounced it a heart attack?” Lucy asked.

“Oh yes. Jake had a condition, and he was terrible about taking his medicine, getting exercise. You saw how he ate and drank,” Cat told her. “Molly said his doctor wasn’t surprised.”

“Lucky for her it happened when it did,” Lucy commented. “Otherwise she might not have her garden.”

“He was a nasty man,” Cat said. “Nasty. But nasty is as nasty does.” She stared at Lucy, straight into her eyes. “But they don’t last, those nasty men. Like Rita over there, her husband was terrible to her. She put up with it for years. She used to fantasize about getting rid of him, you could see it in her books. Then he was killed in a car accident. It was such a relief. She was away at a conference in Chicago when it happened.”

“You mentioned aconite, that day at our conference,” Lucy said.

“Why, yes. Molly needed a poison for her next book.” Cat looked away across the green yard.

“Seems like aconite poisoning might be mistaken for a heart attack,” Lucy said.

“Well, yes, that’s exactly why I suggested it. That way, in the book it could seem like the victim died of natural causes.”

Lucy shook her head. “Cat, I had the cupcake analyzed. How could you do it? You could have killed me or Norah. Or somebody else at that table. How could you know someone else wouldn’t eat it?”

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