Knitting Bones by Ferris Monica

Author:Ferris, Monica [Ferris, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery & Detective, General, Cozy, Fiction
ISBN: 9780425217528
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2007-06-15T07:00:00+00:00

SERGEANT Omernic had barely left when Godwin called.

“Betsy, Alice is down here and wants to know if she can come up.”

Betsy smiled. Doubtless Alice was coming to arrange to take the crow away. Wonderful! “Yes, of course.”

“What do you think of Sergeant Omernic?” asked Godwin. “Odd name, Omernic.”

“Yes, I wonder what nationality it is. He looks kind of Slavic, except he has green eyes, and I think Slavic people have gray or blue eyes. Anyway, he seemed extremely competent. What did you think?”

“He asked a lot of questions, but they were all easy to answer.” His voice faded as he turned away from the receiver.

“She says come on up,” he said, obviously to Alice.

“A good technique, I think.”

“Yes, it’s easier to answer when the question is like that.

I think that’s the way I ask questions.” In an unexpected show of humility, he added, “Or, if it isn’t, it will be from now on.”

“Why, what are you going to investigate now?”

“I don’t know, I was going to ask you what we do next.”

“Nothing, Goddy. We’ve done our part. We found out who murdered Bob Germaine—no, you found it out—and now it’s up to the police to arrest him. I assume you gave his address to Sergeant Omernic.”

“Yes, of course. So we’re done?”

“Yes—excuse me, I think Alice is at my door.”

“Then why don’t I feel like this is over?” persisted Godwin.

“Because this time we’re not going to have that wonderful moment when we watch the culprit confess. But Omernic will go see him, and probably get a confession, sometime in the next hour. Now I have to go let Alice in.” Betsy cut the connection and went to the door.

Alice, tall and mannish in her mud-brown overcoat, was not smiling when Betsy opened the door.

“Uh-oh, is something wrong?”

“Yes, I’m afraid so.”

“Oh, dear. Well, come in and tell me about it.” Betsy stepped back, turned, and went dot-and-go-one back into the living room.

Alice stopped just a step or two into the living room, and stood there rubbing her hands together and not looking at Betsy.

“What is it, what’s wrong?” asked Betsy.

“It’s about the crow.”

“Oh, no, is someone from DNR coming to take it away?”

The Department of Natural Resources would be the government agency enforcing the law about crippled wildlife.

“No, no, that’s not the problem. It’s Annie Spence, the woman in Iowa who is going to take the crow. Her family emergency was her mother, who had a heart attack. She had another, right in the hospital, and died. Annie is stuck in Arizona for at least another week, helping her brother straighten things out.”

“So it looks as if you get to babysit a crow after all,” said Betsy, hoping that was true, even though she could see by the look on Alice’s face that it wasn’t.

“No, I can’t do it, at least not right now. I have workmen coming in to remodel my bathroom. It’ll take four or five days, probably. Betsy, I’m so awfully sorry about this. I’ve asked around, but no

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