Keeper of the Castle 5 by Blackwell Juliet

Author:Blackwell, Juliet [Blackwell, Juliet]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: United States, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Women Sleuths, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 0451465806
Publisher: NAL
Published: 2014-12-02T08:00:00+00:00

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Murphy’s Law of Construction states that when disaster strikes, the client is sure to be on-site. A job can go months without a problem, but the moment the client sets foot on the jobsite, workers suddenly put their boots through windows, painters spill buckets of paint, and scaffolding folds like a house of cards. So I should have known that something would happen when I saw Ellis Elrich was scheduled to do a site tour.

But I was feeling pretty confident. With Elrich’s ample resources at my disposal, things were developing fast. I’d been on-site for less than a week, but foundations had been poured and metal skeletons had been constructed. Guest accommodations were roughed out, and the kitchen power sources had been finagled. We were still working on drilling all the access points for the plumbing and electrical, but the guys now had their method perfected.

Wakefield was starting to take shape.

It was Saturday, but given the push on this project, we were working six days a week. Only Sunday would leave these stones in peace to their ghosts. Graham and I had an appointment at one to go talk with Jeanine McCall, the widow of the building inspector. Maybe she would be able to tell us if he’d discovered something unusual, oh, say, maybe a mysterious treasure, something important enough to inspire someone to kill her husband. It was a little hard to believe . . . but then again, people had been killed over much, much less.

Elrich wanted to show the site to two of his business cronies. Harper—who hadn’t spoken a word to me since she woke up on Graham’s shoulder last night—and Vernon were walking silently and sullenly behind, and Alicia was taking up the rear, her notebook in hand.

The city had sent out a new building inspector, Don Stickley, the man I’d met at the Building Department with Graham. Elrich was impressed to discover we were old buddies as I began to lead the group on a tour of the grounds.

“Let me show you the latex admix we’re using in the mortar,” I began.

Suddenly, there was a great crashing sound, and a plume of dust rose before us in the midday air.

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