Legacy of Blood by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Published: 2024-07-10T16:30:00+00:00

Ten

“What the hell!” Jeannette exploded.

Daniel gave her a quick glance. He almost smiled. She had just managed to scare the hell out of a ghost. Henriette jumped back as if she’d been touched by a branding iron.

“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry... I just... I’m so stunned, and not even because of what you’ve told us but by the fact that we didn’t know!” Jeannette apologized quickly.

Henriette still seemed a bit confused but she nodded solemnly and said, “De rien. It’s nothing. It’s all right.”

“Thank you, thank you, and again, I’m so sorry,” Jeannette said.

“You’re sure about what you heard?” Daniel asked Henriette.

“Mais oui! I was right there, I heard clearly,” Henriette said. “But...perhaps she is not really his maman, perhaps it was a word of affection for an older woman.”

“We’ll find out,” Daniel told her.

Jeannette moved closer, as if she’d take Henriette’s hand if it were possible. “And we do mean thank you, and if you will—”

“Oh, I will continue to watch! It is my extreme pleasure to help you in any way. I longed, always, to be a voice of the people. I was in life perhaps a bit ahead of my time. But now here with you, if I can help save the life of one woman, it will be my greatest joy.”

“You are amazing,” Daniel told her. “And we are grateful to have you on our team.” He turned to Jeannette and said, “I think his show has run long tonight—but if he’s already seeing his people with backstage passes, we’d best get over there.”

“Go. I will be here each night—if you are not able to make it, I will wait for the next night,” Henriette told them.

They repeated their thanks and started back out to the sidewalk and then down to the theater.

“How is this possible? How could he be her son? She is a Matisse—known and respected in this region. He said nothing to us—while giving us information that he’d known the girls and all—about having any relationship with the wineries whatsoever. Jules Bastien. Why an assumed name? And worse than that, how did our tech departments not find the connection—and even worse, why didn’t Gervais tell us?” Jeannette asked, shaking her head.

“Maybe Gervais didn’t know,” Daniel suggested.

“How could he not know? He’s worked in Paris and the environs for years. He knew all our suspects in the vineyards, at least casually. He has been privy to the murders from the beginning. Oh! When we were speaking to Madame Matisse at her bed-and-breakfast, her son was giving the tour for her. How did we not see any of this?”

“All right, as Henriette suggested, maybe he was just calling her Maman with affection for a rich supporter. And Paris and its environs are the largest metropolitan area in Europe—over eleven million people and that doesn’t include Reims. So that adds in another couple of hundred thousand people. Gervais LaBlanc’s expertise is Paris, where—as in most major cities—he has enough crime to deal with. Now, I do

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