Laina Turner - Presley Thurman 01 - Stilettos & Scoundrels by Laina Turner

Author:Laina Turner [Turner, Laina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery: Cozy - Journalist - Chicago
Goodreads: 8350090
Publisher: Five Seas Ink
Published: 2010-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10I came out of Home Depot squinting in the sunlight, thinking I could finally go home. I was exhausted after spending all morning running errands for my mother. After getting up at the crack of dawn, I was tired and dirty. After the events of last night, I had been guilted into doing my mother’s bidding. My mother had been furious at Brian for withholding the fact he had a girlfriend. In fact, I thought my mother was more upset over it than I was. Sue also held me responsible for the broken window. I had called Dirt earlier to try to smooth things over and to see if he had any leads on who could have broken the window or killed the Senator for that matter. Unfortunately, he was no closer to figuring out who had done either one. However, he still wasn’t happy with me, and I didn’t know if he would have told me anything if he did know it. My dad boarded up the window, and my mother, I figured, spent all her free time on the phone with her friends, reliving the drama and complaining about me. I thought I should get points for giving my mother something concrete to complain about.

As I walked out to my car, I thought maybe I would make a quick run back to talk with Betty. The gossip I heard while in Katy’s salon yesterday made me think of a few more questions to ask the town baker, and I felt I deserved a muffin. A girl had to keep up her strength, and the cranberry walnut muffins Betty said they would be making today were calling my name. I also had to make time to go talk to the FBI; Dirt had reminded me that I had to do that today. Since the police station was right down from Betty’s, it would be a crime not to stop in for a muffin.

It seemed like more and more people didn’t look favorably upon the Senator, if you listened to gossip and read between some of the lines, which didn’t necessarily make my job of finding the murderer any easier. Not knowing what I was doing didn’t help either. This was almost getting to be like finding the proverbial needle in the haystack. My cell phone rang somewhere deep in my purse and both my hands were full. I started to juggle my mother’s packages, trying to get a hand free. I knew I should have used a cart. I didn’t want to miss the call in case it was important. After grabbing on to every other item in my purse first, I located the phone, just as the ringing stopped. Damn it. I looked at the caller ID and saw that the call had been from Trevor. This was a call I didn’t mind missing. He’d already left me a few messages to check on my progress, or lack thereof. When we had talked after the murder occurred, he had been excited about having such an exclusive scoop, and he hadn’t stopped hounding me since.

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