Memphis Barbeque Mystery - 02 - Finger Lickin' Dead by Riley Adams

Author:Riley Adams
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780425241912
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“I just wanted to tell y’all that I’m not letting this murder go. Adam didn’t have to die. It wasn’t his time yet. Somebody took the best years of his life away from him. The best years of my life with him. Don’t think you’re going to get away with it. I’m going to find you and hunt you down and you’ll be sorry you ever thought to lay a finger on him. And don’t think I’m not going to find out who killed Adam. Because I’ve already got some leads, believe me.” She stifled another sob.

Everyone around Ginger had frozen. Lulu wished she had some sort of guilt-detection device—but then she noticed that everyone there looked guilty—even Ben. They all listened intently to Ginger with startled looks on their faces. Tudy looked especially riveted and Lulu wondered again how angry Tudy was about Oliver being stuck at home. Evelyn finally succeeded in pulling Ginger away right as she was on the verge of foaming at the mouth.

“Well,” said Tudy in a shaken voice. “That was really something. And why’d she keep looking at you, Oliver? You’re not hiding anything from me, are you?” Her laugh rang hollow.

Oliver said, “Was she looking at me? Who knows—I think this murder has messed with her mind.”

“Remind me again,” said Ben, “why Evelyn is friends with that woman?”

“Evelyn tells me that they have a bond,” said Lulu. “Evelyn says she’s trying to do some healing and Ginger is helping her do that.”

“It sounds like Ginger thinks that the murderer was the one who wronged her,” said Oliver, looking like he had a bad taste in his mouth. “You’d think Ginger would have some pride and just move on.” He stopped talking abruptly as his phone buzzed to let him know he’d gotten a text. He frowned at the device as if he’d never seen it before.

Big Jack laughed, but it wasn’t the natural sound that it usually was. “Funerals are usually all about closure,” he said. “But it sounded to me like she was doing some opening instead of closing.”

Ben was looking curiously at Big Jack. “I’m surprised that you came. I didn’t even realize that you knew Adam.”

Big Jack briefly glanced over at Lulu, saw in her eyes that she hadn’t mentioned anything to Ben about Big Jack’s problems with Adam, and said, “Ben—you know I know everybody.” He glanced at his watch. “Good thing this funeral is over because I’m absolutely starving. I was worried my stomach was going to start growling at me during that preacher’s longwinded prayer.”

Lulu said, “Want to come back to the restaurant with us? We’ll give you our special friend price.”

“Wish I could, Lulu, but I’ve got to go meet with my accountant and he’s outside Memphis. I’ll have to grab something on my way out of town.” He looked mournful. “And all this fast food is making me a bigger Big Jack than usual.”

Lulu frowned. “Where did Ben go? I tell you, I can’t keep track of that boy.

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