Killer in the Kiwis (Lovely Lethal Gardens Book 11) by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Cozy, mystery
ISBN: 9781773362731
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-10-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Sunday Evening …

Darren quickly put on gloves and took the envelope from the drawer in Doreen’s hands and laid the envelope on the bed. He then took photographs of both sides of the envelope. Even as he did that, his phone rang. “Yeah, Mack, you need to come back here,” he said into the phone. She could hear the garbled voice on the other end. “Yeah, she found something. The guys missed it. … No, I don’t know how,” Darren said. “An envelope was underneath the night table drawer with Doreen’s name on it. I followed standard protocol and snapped photos of the envelope itself, which I’ll forward to you. I’m hoping there might be fingerprints or something on it. Yes, I know it’ll likely be Rosie’s only.”

He gave a sideways look at Doreen, who stood here staring at him. “Yes, she’s still here, and, of course, she wants to open it. I thought maybe you should come back and deal with this.” At that, Doreen fisted her hands on her hips and glared at him. He smirked at her. “Yeah, okay. Talk to you in a few.” He hung up and said, “Mack is on his way back.”

“The only fingerprints on that,” she said, “are Rosie’s. You know that, right?”

“Maybe,” he said, “but you know that we’ll also check it.”

“It’ll be another copy of the note she wanted to give to me,” she said, crossing her arms over her chest. “May I continue to look?”

He nodded slowly, but he handed her a pair of gloves this time. She snapped them on with a big grin. “And now it feels official.” She could hear the others at the doorway. She looked over to see Nan giving her a thumbs-up. Even Richie’s grin was broad, and the two of them were crowding out the rest of the seniors from the home. Doreen immediately headed toward the pile on the bed that she’d taken from the night table. She noticed a wealth of chewing gum here. A couple old letters, some medication that looked like pain pills that anybody could get from any drugstore, a couple greeting cards which Doreen opened and studied, then carefully laid to one side. “Did forensics go through here or just the cops who were looking for whatever?”

“Cops looking,” he said.

She nodded. “It makes sense.”

“It wasn’t a crime scene.”

“I know that,” she said. She kept rifling through the paperwork and found a little address book. She pulled it out, smiling. “I haven’t seen one of these in years,” she said.

He peered over at her. “I believe they said it was empty.”

She flipped through it and nodded. “It is,” she said. Except for the very last page, which was a little thick. She studied it carefully and said, “Except these last two pages have stuck together.”

“Let me see it,” he said.

She handed it to him and headed back to the rest of the pile. One long letter had been written to someone named Posie. “Nan, does Rosie have a sister named Posie?”

“Yes,” Nan said.

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