KoVM01-04 - Murder in Paradise: The Kate on Vacation Collection by Lamb Kassandra

Author:Lamb, Kassandra [Lamb, Kassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: onka, amazon, Calibre-duplicates, cThriller
Amazon: B01943DKQO
Publisher: misterio press LLC
Published: 2015-12-06T23:00:00+00:00

At one in the morning, Skip was sitting in the only interview room at the county sheriff’s office. José had let Kate go home, but he’d been cooling his heels for the last hour out in the waiting area while others were being interviewed.

He’d already given José a run-down of the evening from his perspective, so he was wondering why the sheriff still wanted him here.

Maybe his old buddy wanted to use him as a sounding board. He knew the players but was enough of an outsider to see things more objectively. And he had law enforcement experience.

He hoped there wasn’t another reason, that he was a serious suspect. Yes, he’d had a run-in with Beauford at the party, but he was sure the man had worse enemies than him.

Unfortunately one of those enemies was his sister’s husband.

The door shoved open and José backed into the small room, carrying two steaming mugs. He turned and handed one of them to Skip. “Coffee ain’t half bad. My receptionist made it.”

“She’s here at this hour?”

José settled into the chair on the other side of the table. “She volunteered,” he said cryptically, then blew on his coffee and took a sip. “Hey, sorry about the bad haircut.”

Skip ran his hand over the back of his head. “It was getting too long anyway.” He was just as glad to have the hair gone. It was creeping him out that he’d dipped his head into the blood while trying to determine if Beauford was alive.

José took another sip of coffee, then let out a tired sigh. “You were right. Bullet went in the top of the right shoulder. No exit wound so it’s in the body somewhere, hopefully in good enough shape that ballistics can do something with it.”

José shook his head. His hair flopped down on his forehead. He skimmed it back. “Been sheriff for three years now, and I’ve never had a murder that wasn’t obvious who done it right off. Now I’m up for re-election and our most prominent citizen has to go and get himself killed.”

“How’d you get elected in the first place?” Skip blurted out, then thought better of it, hoping he hadn’t offended.

José grinned at him. “Old Sheriff Banks retired. My opposition was Willy Carlton.”

“Seriously?”

“Yeah, that was pretty much everybody’s reaction. I think the only people who voted for him were Sam and his cronies. He would’ve loved havin’ his own little puppet in the sheriff’s office.”

“And so Beauford, Texas got its first Hispanic sheriff.”

José flashed a grin. “Sí, mi amigo.”

“Any fingerprints on the partitions between the stalls?”

“Nothin’ but smears, but we did get a partial sneaker print off the toilet seat of the booth next door. If it’s the killer’s, which is likely, he stepped in some dirty water shortly before climbing up there.”

Something nagged at the back of Skip’s brain, but he was too tired to lasso it and drag it up front. He yawned. “Sorry. It’s not the company.”

“Keep that about the footprint under your hat for now.

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