Mistletoe Malarkey: A Shayla Murphy Mystery (Shayla Murphy Mysteries Book 1) by Stella Bixby

Author:Stella Bixby [Bixby, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ferry Tail Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

Seamus wasn’t exaggerating. We went through the rest of the front hall footage, which only showed a handful of people coming and going, usually in pairs.

The footage from the den was relatively uneventful besides when I pushed Alabaster. I hadn’t realized I’d shoved him so hard. His tumble backward looked like it hurt. If only I could apologize.

Seamus squeezed my hand. “He had it coming. This is probably why he was murdered. Didn’t know how to keep well enough to himself.”

“You think someone murdered him because he came onto them?” Molly asked.

“It seems likely, doesn’t it?” Seamus asked. “He was hitting on Rose and then Shayla and then Clara. He probably hit on everyone besides me mam.”

Molly considered this for a moment.

“Did anyone else complain about Alabaster hitting on them?” I asked her. I was tired and tip-toeing around the point wasn’t within my abilities anymore.

“Not directly,” Molly said. “But in a case like this, it’s unlikely people would offer information that would make them look suspicious.”

“I did,” I said. “I told you about him hitting on me.”

“Did I say I suspected you?” Molly asked.

I didn’t know whether she was actually trying to be nice or if she had a trick up her sleeve. “Did Clara and Rose tell you about him hitting on them?”

She didn’t meet my eye. “Their stories were a bit different than yours, but they told me about their encounters with Alabaster, yes.”

“So it likely wasn’t either of them.” I sighed.

“Or they changed their stories after they offed him,” Seamus said. “I’d bet money on it being Rose. O’course it’s not Clara. She wouldn’t hurt a fly.”

Molly said nothing in reply.

When the silence in the room became overwhelmingly awkward, Molly finally said, “Let’s see a different camera angle. Maybe the one looking the other way down the hall toward the kitchen?”

My heart leaped in my chest. If any camera caught me in the area of the study around the same time Alabaster had been killed, this was the one.

Gráinne scrolled through the different cameras before she got to the one Molly was talking about.

My pulse quickened. This camera showed everything. The door to the study, the door to the bathroom, and all the way to the kitchen. It would show me going into the bathroom, coming out, going into the study, Clara storming out, and me following after my confrontation with Alabaster.

If only I’d have gone straight after Clara, there wouldn’t be any question as to whether I did it. But that bit of time it took for me to yell at Alabaster would surely make Molly think it was me.

I knotted my hands in my lap as Gráinne fast-forwarded the footage.

“Let’s start there,” Molly said the moment I came into view.

This was the first time I’d gone to the study—the time I’d heard Alabaster with Rose. But Molly had specifically stopped it because she’d seen me.

I thought about how long it would take for Rose to exit, then for me to. But as the time ticked down, nothing happened.

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